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Beginnings
In his book, The Nature of Space and Time, the renowned physicist
Stephen Hawking wrote, "Almost everyone now believes that the universe and
time itself had a beginning at the Big Bang."
That would mean that there was no time, space or matter before the Big
Bang. Naturally, our inquiring minds want to know the answer to the
question, if nothing existed, what caused the Big Bang?
The scientific method, of course, would exclude any thought of the
supernatural. That’s because, as any Christians should know, God cannot be
seen with microscopes or telescopes or discovered through experiments. It is
simply not possible to examine God in a laboratory.
By definition, God is transcendent and beyond our human senses. God is
invisible, undetectable and immeasurable.
And there’s the rub!
How can we believe in something that is beyond physical sensing and
measuring?
Like many others, I’ve asked myself those questions, but then I ask
myself these: Did everything come into existence by itself? Did the universe
organize itself? Does life come from the non-living?
I ask myself, “Which is easier to believe: that everything simply burst
out of nothing, or that that there is a God who created everything out of
nothing, even if he did use a Big Bang?”
Whichever we believe, our belief is based on faith. But in the case of
believing in God, it is not a blind faith. God has taken the initiative to
reveal himself to humanity, and he has done it though Jesus Christ.
There is enough historical evidence to know that Jesus was a real person
who lived and died in first century Judea. And, according to the apostle
Paul, there were more than 500 people in addition to the disciples and the
women mentioned in the four Gospels, who saw Jesus alive after his death on
the cross. And then there is the personal assurance that the Holy Spirit
gives believers, the transforming inner peace of loving fellowship with God
and with others.
We can’t measure the Creator God or find him with sophisticated
scientific equipment, but we can certainly know him – through Jesus Christ
by the Holy Spirit.
I’m Joseph Tkach speaking of LIFE.
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