BEYOND A REASONABLE FAITH

#9: The Awesome Being Of God

How Did It All Begin

• No one was there when it happened.

• All arguments are a matter of perspective.

• Job 38:4 – “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.”

Two Hotly Debated Origins

• Big Bang!• Something from

nothing by natural processes

• Energy present, but not mind or direction

• Matter and antimatter and a lot of theory.

How Was That Again?

“The early universe was very hot, and in those early days, there was plenty of energy to go around, and particle-antiparticle pairs of all sorts got constantly created. But the universe cooled, eventually to the point where new pairs couldn’t be created anymore….

“…For instance, when the universe was about 5 seconds old, it was about 6 billion degrees Kelvin, just slightly too cool to make electrons and positrons anymore (but still hotter than the interior of our sun now)….”

“…Unable to make any new material, all of the particles and antiparticles should have eventually found one another and annihilated.”

But there was an IMBALANCE!

“I now have a confession. We – that is, physicists – don’t really know why there’s this imbalance, why the universe is made of matter….It seems that matter and antimatter are a bit different from one another….”

“…As near as we can tell, you came from a symmetry violation in the universe from very near the beginning. It was a very small effect. For every billion antiparticles that were created, there were a billion and one particles. Eventually, all of the antiparticles annihilated with almost all of the particles, leaving the one part in a billion to make all of the ‘stuff’ that we now see.”

Dr. Dave Goldberg, Associate Professor of Physics at Drexel University, co-author with Jeff Blomquist of A User’s Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Pardoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty.

Website: io9.com

Creation: God Created

With Word and Spirit Wisdom, Direction

and Energy Psalm 33:9 – “For

He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.”

Psalm 147:18

“He sends forth His word and melts them; he causes His wind to blow and the waters to flow.”

Psalm 29:3-10

The voice of the Lord is powerful.

It breaks cedars and makes Lebanon skip like a calf.

His voice shakes the wilderness.

He sat as King at the flood.

Jeremiah 51:15

God has a plan, discretion

Jeremiah 10:12 -- It is He who made the earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom, And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

Psalm 104:24 O Lord, how

many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions.

The Spirit With Power Genesis 1:1-2 -- In the

beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.

Psalm 104:30 “You send forth

Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the ground.”

Isaiah 40:7 “The grass

withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass.”

Word in Creation The Angel of the Lord Genesis 16:10, 13 –

“Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, ‘I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count….Then she called the name of The Lord who spoke to her, ‘You are a God who sees….’”

John 1:1-4

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.”

Hebrews 1:1-3

God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high….”