What is Matrix of Heaven meant to mean?
We humans try to come up with concepts for heaven and miserably fail. No eye has seen, etc. Even the jewel-laden imagery of Revelation has to be a mortally understandable metaphor. Anything beyond that would be as nonsense to John and his readers.
As long as we’re clear about being poetic and aren’t trying to propound some contra-biblical teaching, we can’t go too far wrong. The problem comes when we take our figures to be an upper bound on what heaven is. Even a portrait of a bejeweled shangri-la can’t do it justice.
But maybe a mosaic might make more sense than a matrix. A matrix hits me as more cold and sterile. It’s something that would be invoked in the context of mathematics. But in this world, mathematics never exists by itself. It has to be about something, or we have only theory.
The jewel architecture of the Revelation heaven, with its heterogeneous metaphor, might make the most sense of all as far as what we humans can grasp. The jewels are costly, they are beautiful, and they even evoke a sense of fun (the word jewel itself derives from a word that means to play). If God wanted to have a good time and had an unlimited budget to implement it with, what would He do? Maybe this isn’t unreasonable after all.
You are reading from the long-winded version.