Issue 843 – Been Thinking About – September 3, 2022
Sometimes, when I am confronted with a beautiful vista like this, my mind wanders, and I wax a little philosophically. That really isn’t as profound as it sounds. I actually wonder about “stuff.”
Why does all this exist, and how did it come to be? Why is there something instead of nothing? Do you ever think about things like that?
How can there be something at all? In its simplest form, the First Law of Thermodynamics states that neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed. The amount of energy in the universe is constant – energy can be changed, moved, controlled, stored, or dissipated.
If we were to take that law at face value, we must assume that if there is matter, it must always have existed in some form. That is problematic. To have always existed means it must have stretched into eternity past.
The problem is that you cannot cross an infinite series of time. You can travel a day in a day, a year in a year, a million years in a million years. You can never get from eternity past to today. That means that the physical universe must have had a beginning.
To counter that, the big bang theory was proposed. A dense particle of matter exploded, and the universe expanded from that. That doesn’t solve the problem; it just pushes it further back in time. That particle of matter had to exist, so it doesn’t solve the problem.
The only answer is that there must have been a non-material force to create the material universe. Science fails at this point because it cannot deal with the non-material world.
My worldview is that a preexisting, non-material being indeed created the universe. The Bible describes the process, albeit not in tremendous detail.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:1-2
God created everything ex nihilo, literally “out of nothing.”
The fact that God created everything tells us little about Him other than He is creative. Looking at the world around us can say to us He is a God who appreciates beauty and order; in fact, there is no excuse for not believing God exists.
To know more about Him, our relationship with Him, and his plans for us requires more than what nature can tell us. To bridge that gap, He has given us His inspired, inerrant Word, the Bible. What an incredible gift.
What has He revealed about Himself and His plans for you in His Word recently?
Praise God that he has revealed Himself to us.
Hallelu Yah (Praise God)
Be blessed.
Kevin.
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Soli Deo Gloria (for the glory of God alone.)
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