Greetings! The big bang theory has Biblical validity.
Here’s the reply I made to a post somewhere out in cyberspace. I’m posting it here because I don’t know how to link it back to my page.
“I was thrilled to be passing by when I caught your post. I’d love to try to answer some of your questions with real answers. I’d like to make two statements upfront, however. First, there is a large difference between Catholicism and Christianity. Second, faith is simply a deep belief. And yes, God doesn’t dish out all the answers to us up front. If we knew everything, why would we have a need/desire to trust or believe in Him? That would make us the highest form of life and therefore no need to acknowledge Him. And I don’t believe we are that highest form.
So, your questions. “But with that statement the following questions arise: who created the Big Bang and who created the creator?”
First, the Creator is a spirit being. The Big Guy. Spirits are eternal, no beginning and no end. That is why it’s so important to get into the discussion of Jesus Christ and salvation when it comes to your own eternal future.
Actually, I believe we exist in eternity right now. If eternity is eternal then it never had a beginning and never has an end. It exists outside of the parameters of time itself. If we try to grab that with our finite minds it’s a hamster wheel that makes our brain tilt.
So, God drew a starting point and a finish line across the canvas of eternity. He called the starting point “the Beginning” and the intangible measuring stick we call “time,” was born.
Now the Bible tells us right out the door, “In the beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1
Then it tells us in Hebrews 11:3, “by faith we understand that the worlds were framed (fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose) by the word of God, so that what we see was not made out of things which are visible.”
Simply put, to understand this you are going to have to incorporate some belief in it. It says “by faith we understand” and then it tells you how He did it. His Words.
Continuing in Genesis: “The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.”
Now I’ve heard some pretty incredible scriptural arguments that support the “theory” that there’s a huge gap in time between the first and second verse. In the beginning God created . . . and . . . the earth was void and without form. The scriptural basis is found in the documentation of Lucifer’s fall, where he was cast out of God’s Kingdom (Heaven) and basically attributes the destruction (or the void and lifeless earth) to his impact into the earth. This can get pretty in-depth so we’re not going to hang out here.
So, God established time and then created the earth. It was toast and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the planet waiting to find out what He was supposed to do. (My very loose translation of the scriptures above.)
v3 And God said, “Let there be light;” and there was light. Now that seems pretty uneventful until you start thinking about it. We know how fast light travels. That was the power and thrust that was behind His words. And remember the scripture said, “what we see was not made out of things that are visible.” No, it was made out of words. God’s words.
If God’s words have the combustion behind them to explode light into existence then don’t you think that was quite a bang? There was nothing — and then there was brilliant, permeating, penetrating light that raced through the nothingness.
Two interesting points here, science has spent billions of dollars to break down the molecular structure and has discovered the smallest particle inside: the quark. The composition of a quark is soundwaves. God said and it was. Those soundwaves created everything we see. As a matter of fact, God outlined it clearly in the Bible that salvation comes through believing and speaking with your mouth. The same way He created the universe is the same way we create a new life in Him.
The other point is that science continues to stretch out and is amazed that the universe is so unending. But God never set a boundary on the universe. He never told light to stop. He just said “light be” and it continued on . . . and on . . . and on. Science will never reach the ends of the universe because God never said “stop.” That’s how powerful His words are.
So, your “big bang” is probable as explained above. And the existence of a God with no beginning and no end is the greatest of all wonders. Maybe Adam understood it in the garden, because it wasn’t until after they disobeyed God’s one command that time became an issue.
Because of “the fall” Adam was now subject to spiritual death whereas before he wasn’t confined to a limited time on earth. So everyone developed a mindset of limited time. You’re born and then you die.
I’ll be the first to say I don’t have all the answers, but I have walked this life as a Christian for a while. Many people have bumped into religion and it doesn’t deliver. Jesus Christ is about relationship. Walking with you day-by-day, helping, comforting, counseling, encouraging. It’s not an easy road, but it’s one you never have to walk alone again.”
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October 5, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Shirley
I enjoy your writing. It lilts, yet is full of crucial truth. Thank you.
Shirley Buxton
http://www.shirleybuxton.wordpress.com
December 3, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Angie
Really enjoyed this. Thank you so much.
February 18, 2008 at 9:00 pm
joyangel123
We know that we are not the highest life form in existence because the bible make reference to the lowly state of humanity and how the angels are higher beings.
Bold, arrogant people! They do not tremble when they blaspheme the glorious ones; however, angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring a slanderous charge against them before the Lord. But these people, like irrational animals—creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed—speak blasphemies about things they don’t understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed, suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. 2 Peter 2: 10-13
Jesus and Humanity
For He has not subjected to angels the world to come that we are talking about. But one has somewhere testified:
What is man, that You remember him,
or the son of man, that You care for him?
You made him lower than the angels for a short time;
You crowned him with glory and honor
and subjected everything under his feet.
For in subjecting everything to him, He left nothing not subject to him. As it is, we do not yet see everything subjected to him.
Hebrews 2:5-8
Science is man trying to understand how God did it. But we can only see things via our time sequence. We know that God and heaven is on a different speed and therefore a different time. God says a thousand years to us is like a day in heaven. You know that in revelations when it says there was silence for half an hour in heaven, that’s like 20 years down here. So it makes sense that when man studies the earth’s crust for it’s time line he see millions of years. The world was destroyed by the fallen angels in a terrible war that is why it was formless and dark. But there was water (water here also has to do with all it’s states: ice, liquid, gas) and land under the water. That is the mystery me do not know much about but we will.
In the beginning God created the heavens (sky and outer space) and the earth.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” Evening came, and then morning: the first day.
Then God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water.” So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so. God called the expanse “sky.” Evening came, and then morning: the second day.
Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. Genesis 1:1-9
See we were not created from nothing although it was very little; the dirt and water. This is what it was reduce to. This is why Jesus always asks for what little that there is and turns it into more than enough. like feeding the five thousand with a few fishes and loaves. It is what God has been saying about the humanity. He calls us servants lower than the angel yet he will glorify the insignificant and raise us up to more than we can be. God can make more out of your little bit than you can make of a whole lot.
There was a whole heck of a lot going on this earth during it’s formation that is why the living things got put on it last. There was a lot of “bang” and eruptions etc.
Joyangel123
http://gatesofrighteousness.blogspot.com
March 20, 2008 at 11:16 am
O'Ryan
Sweet post!
i do want to mention one thing i noticed that’s off however, which kinda messes everything else up (if say a non-believer read this). Quarks are not “sound” waves. they can function as waves or as a particle.
but functioning as a wave shouldn’t be confused with being a sound wave. photons (light) can also function as a wave and as a particle. the wave function is a type of interaction and light, sound, and quarks all differently and shouldn’t be confused as the same thing.
light and sound may be described by similar mathematics, but they are fundamentally different physical phenomena and you can’t just link one to the other. You can’t hear light or see sound.
however!
i highly doubt the early story tellers of the gospels would have understood even the basics of quantum chromodynamics. so perhaps God explained it simply with a comparison to sound.
but then again,
many more literal translations of the gospels never have God actually speaking existence into existence. he simply willed it. “be light” being the content of the will. and it was and still is creating light, an ever expanding universe. (this could be linked up with Jesus is the light and the word and all that good stuff as well to provide a more spiritual side to this)
Scientist have decided that the big bang was most likely initiated by the presence of light into the void. Starting a cascade of vibrations and heat and gravity and bing bang boom everything else.
now scientist also have a theory called “the observer and the observed” which tells us that the observer causes the observed, or at the very least that the observer interferes with that which is being observed by the very process of observing it.
that every thing when not being observed occupies superposition (which is simply infinite possibility… anywhere anytime) and when the observer observes it is forced into a position based on a bizzillion and a half variables. so perhaps when God came to the Void and thought “light be” he was in effect, the first observer creating a single possible probability from the infinite potential that was the nothingness. and if thought is to have an effect on something say like a Quark… then one would have to reason that a thought shares some kind of properties with a quark… say the wave function? not to mention the thunderous amount of sound the cascade of everything out of nothing would have made. “some heard thunder while others heard the voice of God”
so then i suppose… depending on how you looked at it… that Gods voice could and probably is the same as God thinking, then one could assume that science has just proved that God was being Figurative and very literal when he had Genisis 1:3 written “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”
Grace and Peace,
O’Ryan