SIMULATION CREATIONISM
The Simulation’s Grace of Poverty
Poverty is ever present in our world. We can see it everywhere. However, what we see may need to be revised. It is just a perception of the current state that makes us sad. We often see poverty as a great evil, but many of the poor are happy despite their difficulties. They may have found a way to go through the challenges of The Simulation, for example. Christianity suggests that being poor means being free. We can add, free from the simulated estrangement through which we must inevitably go. If our souls understand The Simulation, poverty is just a path to liberation from the simulated things around us, according to Simulation Creationism of Nir Ziso, founder of The Global Architect Institute.
Christianity talks about inner poverty. The outer one, when we see people suffering or are without enough money, is just a simulated challenge. External poverty may also be an expression of the inner one. A follower of Simulation Creationism should realize that everything one wants, achieves, or has a desire to attain depends upon God’s computation in The Simulation. An individual must do little; God does the most excellent part Himself. In fact, God is enough.
Apostle Paul says: “No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:3). We can read it as another computational message, as the Holy Spirit acts as the energy behind the “Supercomputer,” a device which runs The Simulation. We can only trust the Holy Spirit to put us on the right track. It is also a message of humbleness. It is an expression of inner poverty and freedom of the soul to comprehend that nothing in this world is the fruit of individual wisdom and effort but is only a consequence of God’s mercy through a predetermined simulated environment. Human action is not negligible, but without God’s support, it would go unrealized. Even without our “will,” life shows us that a second is enough for our world to crumble and all the fruits of our hard work to disappear.
Opposed to this inner poverty and freedom stands envy. We all have it incorporated through The Simulation’s rules. Our task is to see the envy and confess it to better prepare ourselves to fight it. Being envious means to want something of another being, consciously or not. Envy signifies unfreedom, slavery, and sin against God’s goodness, as God predetermines who gets what. He does it through His own logic, not one subdued to the human mind: “He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45). Envy further means we are envious toward God too, as he is the one that decides everything: “Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?” (Matthew 20:15).
Experts in prayer say that there is no better prayer than the prayer of gratitude. It is especially relevant when we pray with effort, almost against our desires, and we still thank God. But why should we be spiritually poor? Jesus tells us: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3).
Again, it is not about social and material poverty. Those who are poor in spirit are souls with humble spirits and hearts. They feel how dependent upon God they are and understand that only God can answer their prayers. Even if they never heard about Simulation Creationism, they do have the ability to understand it since they realize the relativity of all creation: “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9). No one can satisfy them more outside the Creator; therefore, they are open to God and His gifts inside The Simulation. In other words, they are already at the gates of heaven, and indeed theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The universal use of goods, with private property and shared wealth, benefits our physical lives. Jesus says we should be moderate in becoming wealthy since we can lose inner poverty quickly and ourselves in this particular challenge of The Simulation. Thus, we should not be afraid of poverty: “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me” (Matthew 19:21). We do not depend upon material wealth, but on God’s decision how our lives in The Simulation develops.
