Paul Bock, 2026
Motto:
“The kingdom of God is within you,” said Jesus — not absent, but undetected.
We live in a three-dimensional world, and we take it for granted. We easily understand the concept of three dimensions: length, width and heigh; our brains are hard wired to see and feel three dimensions, and it is hard to imagine that there could be more than three.
It is difficult to represent a three-dimensional world in two dimensions; cartographers struggled with this for centuries. They have invented different systems of projections, to represent a round (spherical, three dimensional) globe on flat paper, where longitudes and latitudes correspond to length and width, and heights, the third dimension is represented by numbers: Mount Baldy 10,064 feet high, Death Valley negative -282 feet, and the highest mountain on Earth, Chomolungma[1] (Mount Everest) 29,032 feet.
It was the genius of Albert Einstein, who introduced the concept of the fourth dimension: time. We, humans are not equipped to visualize this fourth dimension, nor can we directly represent it graphically, but we can interpret it. This fourth dimension is present in our lives all the time, as time is an essential attribute of everything we do.
Let us use an example form the domain of mathematics, to illustrate the concept of the fourth and more dimensions.
If we use x to represent length, y to represent width and z to represent height in a three-dimensional Cartesian space, the equation:
x2 + y2 = R2 represents a circle having a radius of R in a two-dimensional space.
If we add the third variable, z, representing height, we will get:
x2 + y2 + z2 = R2 is the representation of a sphere of a radius equal to R.
Now, if we were to add a fourth variable, w, we will get:
x2 + y2 + z2 + w2 = R2. We cannot visualize or imagine what that would represent in our physical world, however, for a mathematician it clearly says that it is a “something” in a four-dimensional space.
We can add the fifth variable, let’s call it v, and we get:
x2 + y2 + z2 + w2+ v2 = R2, which is the mathematical representation of “something” in a five-dimensional space.
Continuing this line of thought, we can create spaces of any dimensions we want, which exist on paper as mathematical expressions, but we, humans cannot comprehend them in our physical world.
There is another dimension we are not equipped to visualize, understand or comprehend: God. God is a different dimension. We sense God’s presence through His manifestations but cannot comprehend more.
Mankind attempted to create visual, anthropomorphic, two-dimensional representations of God for centuries; the most famous was Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapell, where God, represented as a human, reaches out to give life and soul to Adam. Culturally and from a religious historical view, these were valid attempts to help humans understand and relate to the Divine, but all missed the essence: God is a dimension of His own, and we, humans lack the facilities to comprehend it.
The tool to comprehend God, in His “other” dimension, is faith.
What is faith? The simplest definition: Faith is trust placed beyond direct proof.
The English word, faith comes from Latin fides, meaning trust, loyalty, reliability — the same root as “fiduciary” and “confide.” In Greek (New Testament), the word is pístis (πίστις), which means both belief and trustworthiness: it is not blind acceptance, but confidence based on a relationship. So originally, faith was not a leap in the dark; it was a relationship of trust built on evidence of character rather than physical proof.
Outside religion, faith is the capacity to act despite uncertainty.
Everyday life requires it: we trust that banks will keep our money safe, we trust that people will keep promises, we trust that tomorrow will come. It is what lets humans build, love, and risk when outcomes are not guaranteed.
Healthy faith is dynamic: it questions, doubts, tests, matures. Blind faith (belief without reflection) is brittle. Mature faith includes doubt and dialogue — “faith seeking understanding,” as Saint Augustine wrote Credo ut intelligam — “I believe so that I may understand.”
Faith is not closing our eyes to reality; it is opening them to the possibility that reality is larger than what we can prove. It is trust that holds steady when evidence ends. Mathematics works on logic, faith on recognition, and words to explain God fail because they belong to reason, while faith belongs to intuition.
Faith is the instrument that helps us hear what God tells us, helps us understand His dimension.
The world is full of invisible realities — gravity, electromagnetic field, sound waves, radiation — which we know not because we see them, but because we have learned to tune in to their effects. The electromagnetic field extends far beyond the narrow band of visible light. What we see is a fraction between roughly 400–700 nanometers; above and below lie infrared, ultraviolet, radio, gamma, and more. It is all around us, but we can’t see it.
Although we are not equipped to see the full electromagnetic spectrum, but we see its manifestations: UV radiation causes paints and colors to fade, magnetic fields cause the compass needle to move, and we can perceive some spectrum of the electromagnetic field when we tune in to the right frequency with a radio or television set.
Similarly, the Divine field, God’s presence, His dimension, is all around us, it is everywhere, and although we cannot see or feel it, we can see and feel its manifestations through faith. God’s presence is not intermittent—it is constant, pervasive, like the magnetic field that holds the compass true. Just as an antenna must be raised to catch the signal, the soul must be lifted to catch the Spirit.
This Divine field operates on a frequency that our ordinary senses cannot decode. Faith is the instrument of tuning, the inner receiver that allows the soul to pick up the divine broadcast already humming through all existence.
In physics, an instrument must be calibrated to the field it measures; even a perfect antenna is useless if mistuned. Likewise, faith is not automatic; it must be formed, tuned, and purified.
Science constructs external instruments to detect what senses cannot; faith constructs internal ones. A telescope doesn’t create stars—it reveals them. An electron microscope doesn’t invent cells—it magnifies what was hidden. Likewise, faith doesn’t create God—it allows consciousness to register His presence.
Both rely on trust that the universe can be understood. Science trusts the laws of nature; faith trusts the Creator behind those laws. Both are, in essence, acts of confidence that assist us to decode reality, to perceive dimensions that are beyond our recognition.
Through silence, prayer, study, humility, and moral discipline, the soul becomes more sensitive—less noisy, less distorted by ego—so that the Divine signal comes through clearly. Faith allows us to “hear the still small voice” of God (1 Kings 19:12). That voice is never absent; human noise drowns it out. Faith is like happiness, nobody can give it to us, it comes from within.
Just as equations describe but do not look like what they represent, so faith’s language is analogical, pointing beyond itself. Mathematics allows us to “see” ten-dimensional space not with eyes but with conceptual tools. Through faith we can relate to the trans-dimensional nature of God, we can hear His messages, and we understand the manifestations of His love.
Imagine the universe as an immense broadcast spectrum, where Nature emits the carrier wave (Psalm 19: “The heavens declare the glory of God”); Conscience transmits the moral frequency (“the law written on their hearts,” Romans 2); History and Scripture encode specific messages and Faith is the receiver that can integrate them into one intelligible signal: God speaking through creation.
Without faith, the spectrum is static; with faith, it becomes symphony.
When faith matures, we no longer ask, “Where is God?” Instead, we whisper, “Here am I, Lord—now I can hear You.”
[1] Chomolungma is the Tibetan name meaning “Goddess Mother of the World”
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