Science is defined as the field of observing the Universe comprised of energy, time, matter, and space and how each of these natural phenomena acts and reacts. Sadly, immutable science and biology have been replaced by ideologic social and psychological belief systems comprised of metaphysical terms, esoteric emotions, and philosophical absurdities rather than objective science.
However, it is still believed by many scientists (for the time being!) that the entire Universe came forth from a vacuum state which underlies everything within it and is the foundation of existence for all things because virtual particles are spontaneously emanating and being absorbed continuously without end.
Every event has a cause. There is a growing consensus among scientists that it was within a concentrated ball of light that appeared out of nowhere during a rapid and cataclysmic explosive expansion or "inflation," all energy, space, and time came into existence together in what is known as the "Big Bang" which was first hypothesized by the Belgian priest and cosmologist physicist Georges Lemaître in 1931. It is believed that this happened in only about a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth (10 to the minus 35) second and then started to immediately cool, leaving behind a faint pattern of temperature fluctuations on the edge of the observable Universe. Before the so-called 'Big Bang,' it is theorized, there was no time or space.
THE MULTI-STAGES OF CREATION
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. 2 Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning - the first day." (Genesis 1:1-5 NIV)
The verses describe the primary stages of Creation. There were six "evening(s)" and "morning(s)," which became the "day(s)" (v5) of the Creation week. The word "evening" (Heb: "erev") represents the darkness of time immediately preceding and following the setting of the Sun. Darkness obscures the light and the ability to discern order and identify shapes. It is "formless and empty" (v2).
The word "morning" in Hebrew is "boker," which indicates the point of time at which the obscurity of the night changes to the dawn of the day when the advent of light provides the ability to visibly discern forms and shapes, bringing into view the design and order of things.
"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day." (Genesis 1:31 NIV)
The Targum Onkelos translation of the Hebrew into Aramaic of the verse above emphasizes the proclamation because it is a well-established and unified order. This verse indicates that the spiritual and physical worlds were originally linked or integrated.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
In the very first words of the book of Genesis, in a single finite moment before time began, the infinite God spoke the Universe into existence and created it from a ball of energy that appeared suddenly from nothingness.
God's first recorded words were "Let there be light" and photons of light appeared for the first time! (Genesis 1:3 NIV) A literal translation of this command is "Light, exist!" This showed the absolute creative power and control God has over all things. He spoke succinctly into the void and commanded photons to come into being.
The first light pervaded everything, filling the entire Universe. God is the creator of light and darkness, but they cannot exist together, so they function at separate times.
"Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it" (Isaiah 42:5 ESV)
The Hebrew verb translated as "created" is "bara" and is defined as "bringing into existence something new, something that did not exist before" (See Gen 1:1; 2:3; 2:4; Ps 148:5; Isa 40:26; 42:5; 45:18). The Universe was made out of something that cannot be measured or detected.
God alone instantly "…created the heavens and stretched them out..." (Isaiah 42:5 ESV). The characteristic of the Universe stated more frequently than any other in the Bible is that it was "stretched" out and continues to expand. Jesus, God the Son, is responsible for the cosmic expansion (Job 9:8; Ps 104:2; Is 40:22; 44:24; 45:12; 48:13; 51:13; Jer 10:12; 51:15; Zech 12:1).
"He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in." (Isaiah 40:22 NIV)
"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." (Hebrews 11:3 NIV)
THE LIGHT SURROUNDING THE SUN
God created a dark body and called it the Sun. It does not emit light directly - light results from the photons that surround it. The Sun is considered a yellow dwarf star that travels through space at 150 miles per second and makes a revolution around the home galaxy of the solar system, and the Earth called the Milky Way Galaxy every 225 million years! Scientists do not know precisely how far out the solar system extends, nor do most definitively understand what keeps the Sun shining its light.
Sir Isaac Newton studied sunlight and discovered that a prism could break it down into a rainbow of colors. Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) was a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and horologist who viewed light as an impulse moving in all directions and theorized that light moves as a wave within a three-dimensional space. No wave of light is actually pure white. The light photons produced around the Sun are made up of many different waves of brightness and colors that vibrate at various angles. They will appear white once detected and processed by the human eye.
The Sun provides virtually all the heat, light, and other energy necessary for sustaining life on Earth and the energy for the entire solar system. Yet, the Earth receives only half a billionth of the energy that leaves the Sun. It has been estimated that the amount of matter found in the Sun could provide enough energy to fuel billions of years of atomic reactions!
The Sun is the central member of the solar system, yet it is only an average-sized star that is 109.3 times the volume of the Earth! Its mass is 333,400 times greater than the Earth and exerts so much gravitational force that it holds the other planets in the solar system in orbit and governs their motion. It weighs more than everything within the solar system combined and contains more than 99 percent of its entire mass!
THE INVISIBLE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL WORLD
"My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence." (John 18:36 KJV)
The Greek word for "world" is ‘kosmos,’ which speaks of a universe as a system with order and pattern. Jesus was saying that the kingdom that He rules over was in another dimension separate from the Earth.
God can operate in multiple dimensions because He created the Universe. The Bible tells us that God can see every possible outcome throughout a person's existence into all eternity and for every individual who has ever lived. It is foolish not to trust our lives to His keeping.
The Bible reveals an entire invisible universe of beings similar to us and exists in a separate dimension or parallel to us in this world. An invisible world surrounds planet Earth called the "heavenly realms," consisting of other beings called "angels," "demons," "principalities," and "forces."
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Ephesians 6:12-13 NIV)
THE TRINITY OF TRINITIES
The Bible says that God has always existed before time began. He formed "the universe" at His "… command, so that what was seen was not made out of what was visible" (Hebrews 11:3 NIV). It asserts that Jesus, God the Son, created the Universe and was active before its Creation.
"For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on Earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." (Colossians 1:16-17 NIV – see also Prov 8:22-31; Isa 45:5-22; John 1:3,17:24; Eph 1:4; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 1:2; 1 Peter 1:20)
Jesus created the Universe out of the dimensions of space and time, which are not visible to human beings. He is "the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation" (Colossians 1:15-16 NIV - see also Ex 33:20; John 1:18, 6:46; 1 Tim 1:7, 6:16). Jesus was with God, the Father "…in the beginning" (John 1:1 NIV). Through Jesus, the Universe was made (Hebrews 1:2). He is "…the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his beginning, sustaining all things by his powerful Word. ..." (Hebrews 1:3 NIV). His creative wisdom was "destined for our glory before time began" (1 Corinthians 2:7 NIV). God predetermined to give us His grace "in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time" (2 Timothy 1:9 NIV) and provide the "hope of eternal life" which was "... promised before the beginning of time" (Titus 1:2 NIV).
"In the beginning (TIME), God created the heavens (SPACE) and the Earth (MATTER)" (Genesis 1:1 ESV)
God instantly created Time, Space, and Matter as a trinity of trinities. Time is past, present, and future; Space has length, width, and height; Matter has solid, liquid, and gas. God is outside of them and not limited or affected by them because He is a spirit with no material body (John 4:24). The truth is that the Triune God has no beginning - He IS! (Exodus 3:14).
THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS
The Bible tells us why the Universe exists and proclaims that Jesus is the divine Designer who created it with a purpose and maintains all things by the word of His power (John 1:3; Hebrews 1:2-3; Colossians 1:16-17). Jesus, the Eternal Word, spoke into existence all things "in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him" (Colossians 1:16 NIV).
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it." (John 1:1-5 NIV)
Jesus has eternally existed with God the Father before the Creation of all things and is co-equal with Him. He created all things, including the fallen angel known as the evil one, satan, who is the temporary ruler of the earthly world (John 14:30)! The entire planet is under the control of the evil one (1 John 5:19). However, Jesus holds Christians securely, and the evil one cannot touch them (1 John 5:18). God did not create evil, as it is simply the absence of God, like darkness is the absence of light, and cold is the absence of heat.
The Holy Spirit eternally energizes and supplies life to all of Creation. In the beginning, God spoke on the second day of creation week and said:
"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." (Genesis 1:6-8 KJV)
The word "firmament' is the Hebrew word ‘raqiya,’ which means 'expanse' like an arch, and that it was stretched out like a tent separating two vastly different realms. This suggests that on the first and second days, God created time, matter, energy, and the upper regions of space to be the Cosmos' building blocks.
"In the beginning you laid the foundations of the Earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end." (Psalm 102:25-27 NIV)
HUMAN BEINGS
After speaking the Cosmos and Earth into existence, God created the first human beings.
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the Earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:26-27 ESV)
God instantly created only two biological genders of human beings - male and female - with a brain that has independent reasoning processes and thoughts and not just a random collection of chemicals formed by chance over a billion+ years.
Since Adam and Eve, God has revealed Himself to every human being in the beauty of the heavens, "for since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse" (Romans 1:18-20 NIV).
CONCLUSION
The study of the Bible requires faith that comes via special divine revelation that only the Bible reveals (John 15:26; 2 Peter 1:19-21).
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." (Romans 1:20 NIV)
A person who makes the bold assertion that there is no God and no one can know if there is cannot prove it, which logically opens the door to acknowledging the idea or possibility that God may exist. Nothing can't create something.
Proving that God does not exist requires faith or the ability to travel the entire Cosmos and examine every quantum particle to qualify and have the authority to make that assertion which would make them God!
One of many themes running through the Bible is that human beings are not the master of their destiny throughout life. No one can think things into being except God. Consciousness can’t influence present reality so that a person can use their positive thoughts to change their future reality, gender, health, or economic well-being.
"By faith, we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible." (Hebrews 11:3 NIV)
Faith is active trust in God, who made Himself seen in His Creation. The Bible says that Jesus supplies the infinite energy that holds everything together and sustains the Cosmos. It is the revealed general revelation of "His invisible qualities" - His "eternal power and divine nature" that "have been clearly seen" [and] understood from what has been made" by God, which makes evident within the mechanical workings of nature the existence of God and any observer accountable to Him (Romans 1:20 NIV). However, the study of Nature or the Cosmos cannot unequivocally prove the existence of God even though the Bible declares that it was through Jesus Christ that all things originated from Him (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2).
The methodology of study used by Christians is very similar to that used by physicists. Human beings cannot see beyond the boundaries imposed by Time, Space, and Matter into realities other than what God has already revealed in the Bible. Any personal "vision" of Creation outside of the restrictions that faith imposes within Scripture contradicts what faith means.
Some pseudo-scientist mystics propagate that everything in the Cosmos is a gigantic, impersonal, vibrating sphere of interconnected energy. They believe that everything is one and can communicate through thought with each other with no regard to Time, Space, and Matter. It is thought that the 'deity,' and 'its' voice, fills every atom in the Universe, which means 'it' is in everything. Therefore there is no need for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as the only way of salvation for every human being.
The Bible says that only those who know Jesus Christ as God have the actual Creator of the Universe within them rather than a 'god' being in all people.
"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." (Romans 8:9 KJV)
Contrary to the "out of nothing, nothing comes" logic of finite human beings, according to the Bible, everything that begins to exist has a cause. We live in an ever-expanding finite universe with a specific beginning and a creation of time and space. The Bible states that God has no beginning because He is the beginning!
"I am the Alpha and the Omega - the beginning and the end," says the Lord God. "I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come - the Almighty One." (Revelation 1:8 NLT)
The Bible tells us that only God inhabits eternity (See Isaiah 57:15). For Him, time is relative. He has always existed "before all time" (Jude 1:25 NIV). He created time and can compress or expand it based on what He wants to do.
"…A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day." (2 Peter 3:8-9 NLT – see also Psalm 90:4)
God never runs out of time or is limited by it. The Creator of all things exists and operates in multiple dimensions beyond our understanding. He is far greater than our finite minds can understand within our minuscule understanding of this world and reality. Human Beings are limited to living and moving freely in only three dimensions and part of the time (fourth) dimension, as they can only move forward in time. Human Beings cannot move through time to try and make right a sinful wrong committed, but Jesus can - and did - by forgiving all past, present, and future sins on the Cross!
The question for you today is who, what, when, or how do you think the Universe came into existence? Jesus said He created it all and is worthy to be worshipped, honored, and adored. He proved that when He chose to become human, enter the world He created, and then sacrifice Himself through death to provide the ONLY way to spend eternity with Him.
It is time to choose whom you will serve – the created or the Creator!
