HEAVEN — Recompiling Theology from First Principles#
What is HEAVEN?
HEAVEN stands for Honestly Examining Axioms Validating Every Narrative It is the constructive counterpart to HELL. Where HELL finds the bugs, HEAVEN is the clean rebuild from source. Please note that Heaven remains reserved as a term for referring to whatever those dimensions of divinity are that humans cannot usually access. Yet, since God does not contradict God-self, any true Heaven will necessarily imply some form of HEAVEN and HELL, however those may be implemented. If so, anyone wishing to get to Heaven might as well get used to both if only to reduce the learning curve and incidentally save God’s Beautiful Blue Marble Earth along the way.
Every religious tradition on Earth carries centuries of accumulated interpretation. Some of that interpretation may have drifted from its original source — not through malice, but through the ordinary entropy of human communication across generations. HEAVEN is the project of going back to first principles: stating theological claims as formal axioms, deriving their consequences with mathematical logic and probability theory, and checking where traditions that have warred for centuries actually agree once their claims are made precise.
This matters for everyone — not just scholars. If the world’s theological conflicts turn out to rest on naming bugs rather than genuine disagreements about God, then a rigorous recompile could replace millennia of eschatological warfare with common ground. That is the promise of mathematical theology.
The first exploration below records an AI-assisted survey of prior art, a proposed axiom system for pan-en-theistic mathematical theology, and scriptural arguments from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sources for why pan-en-theism is much closer to the revealed truth than other theological frameworks.
Todo
AA: Rewrite this page to provide a better overview of the HEAVEN project now that PET and JUB have their own dedicated sections under /matheology/.
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