You seem to be using a secular-biased terminology in your post and I can reciprocate within the narrow focus of a response.
Perhaps you've heard about the small bubble we can observe, known as The Universe? Only a certain amount is visible, it's explained, due to the limited amount of time available for light to travel to the observer (whoever that may be) wherever they're observing from. We have no idea what's going on beyond that limit. However it's still part of the three dimensions of space; events beyond that limit are not in "another" (fifth or eleventh or whatever) dimension.
They're simply too remote to be observed. Suggestions about what happens to our system of coordinates under extreme conditions abound, all speculative, but whatever those conditions may be amounts to the same thing: we lack the resolution in our instruments to make observations.
Whether too distant, then, or too small or too fast (relative to the observer) are just limits. Perhaps you could imagine something moving at the speed of light, some things do apparently, well
if you were that thing
then relative to you an object such as the sun is what would appear to be moving. "Wow!" you might think, "I wonder how time is passing for that object?" Whether you'd see it as matter or radiation is immaterial here, just as is the question of how two superluminal objects (as they seem to us) may regard one another if they were on parallel trajectories. Their time axis would be very different from ours so their system of coordinates could perhaps be a "different" dimension – especially if rather than running in parallel they were going in opposite directions.
OK, all that assumes "direction" is from our point of view. From
their point of view, we'd look like whatever
we see when we notice things moving at light speed in opposite directions.
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- The devil is more powerful than God himself and God cannot overcome the influence the devil has
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The Bible explains that we only ever see a small part of God's influence in the universe. This agrees with agnostic secularism to the extent that we can only ever see a small part of the universe.
Isaiah 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
God is not tied to a single time axis. Whether it's yours or that of a neutrino or of two Martians moving in opposite directions has no effect on God. Our logic, bound to time, cannot describe what God is doing and within the aegis of scientific enquiry there is much dissent and jealousy regarding new theories, dispute even regarding the observations themselves.
James 3:15-17 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
God has already defeated the devil. Perhaps if you think of them moving in opposite directions at light speed (from our point of view) like, say, two searchlights pointed in opposite directions you'll see that neither beam would come in contact with the other but that we could see both beams? No object could ever be illuminated by both searchlights. Jesus taught us about Love and what He says is always consistent. God's status in the universe eliminates hypocrisy BUT there are people out there claiming He uses special "magic" words with special "magic" meanings that nobody can understand. Concerning Love, for example, when Jesus said:
Luke 14:26-27 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
He was not teaching us something we could work out for ourselves. He's teaching us something we could NOT work out for ourselves. When people say that He means a special "magic" hate (that no-one's ever heard of) they're trying to distort His teaching. To make Jesus say things He did not actually say. Just because the devil is defeated does not mean that we can't see what his influence would be if he were not.
Perhaps you could address these points in your introduction.