Genesis 1:1-5 “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. 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 the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there
was morning, one day.”
One
thing that I really don’t see a lot of in the Christian world is the discussion
of Genesis. But as a child I attended a Church of Christ private elementary
school, and in every chapel period we heard another story from the Old
Testament. These were valuable lessons that stick with me today some forty-five
years later. Additionally we were taught that the Bible is the infallible word
of God. That every word is true and inspired by God. So as I aged and was
confronted with science and the educational system, it led me to questions.
Questions of the infallibility of the Bible as the word of God. In Catholic
high school I was taught that scripture was not necessarily perfect, but
perfect for instruction, for symbolism, for the Christian, but not necessarily
completely factual. But I would argue that it is indeed infallible. That not
one word contradicts observations by Science. So let’s begin here, it what very
well may be a multipart series.
“In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” God existence is eternal.
He never had a beginning, and never will have an end. He is not bound by time
and space. And in Genesis 1:1 we see that God is creating time and space as
understood by Albert Einstein. He created the dimensions. He created a space
outside of his plane of His existence in that moment. God, in this act, created
Gravity… gravity being the interaction of energy with time and space. So God’s
first act in the creation of the universe we know was to create the canvas for
which to paint it on. He created time and space, and by default gravity.
“The
earth was formless and void…” There was no earth, there was only time and space
which to the writer most likely appeared as water. God moved over the surface
of time and space. Or perhaps literally this new dimension of time and space
was born out of God’s manipulation of water. Clearly I do not understand the
literalness of this verse, but at the same time my lack of understanding does
not make it any less true. The point is time and space was created first, and
there was nothing but time and space.
“Then
God said, ‘Let there be light…’” Here God might have well said, ‘E=MC2”
“Let there be light” as said by God, established the law by which energy would
interact with this new creation of time and space. E=MC2 dictates
that when Energy exceeds the speed of light (C) then mass is formed. Yet until
just recently science dictated that the speed of light could not be exceeded.
However recent discoveries suggest that our universe is expanding faster than
the speed of light, which offers plenty of explanation as to how mass is
formed. And so not God has the canvas of time and space, the paint of the transformation
of energy to mass, and his creation of the universe as we know it is about to
begin. But first he must separate the light form the darkness.
The
darkness, most likely know by science as dark matter, remains but a theory with
no concrete evidence of fact. But certainly to come, and certainly the God particle
comes from this one line of scripture.
“God
called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening
and there was morning, one day.” This act of God call an evening and a morning
a day will be critical later in study of Christianity and Judaism. A God day
starts at sun down, not midnight.
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