And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ( Matthew 27:46 )
Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross was the symbolic fulfillment of the sacrifice that was made on the first day when God said, Let there be light, and caused formerly pure water to become corrupted with the general messiness that is necessary for life to form.
We also saw yesterday that things on earth are patterned after thing in the heavens, Christ’s sacrifice being an example:
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ( Hebrews 9:23 )
I equate the scientific concept of the Big Bang nucleosynthesis with God’s creative work of the first day. The actual big bang, or loud noise, I have until now considered to be God’s command Let there be light. In this scenario the command contains enough energy to cause the water molecules of the deep to split into H+ and OH- and nuclear fusion begins. That is an acceptable interpretation but there may be a better one.
Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross was necessary because Jesus had to become sin for us in order to pay for our sin. In the beginning God had to take perfectly pure water and create impurity in it in order for us to be first created, and then redeemed. Impurity entered the water as nucleosynthesis formed larger and larger atomic nuclei that contained darkness, and obstructed light. The light shining in darkness and the darkness comprehending it not. This is the heavenly part of Christ’s earthly sacrifice.
What has occurred to me is that:
- IF things on earth are patterned after heavenly things,
- AND Christ’s sacrifice on the cross is patterned after the sacrifice that God made on the first day,
- THEN Christ’s cry from the cross is patterned after the scream of agony that occurred when the water molecules split.
In this scenario the big bang, at least the noise part, is an effect, not the cause.
Just a thought.
It doesn’t change the application of Newton’s 3rd Law as I wrote about on January 3rd.
Law III: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
God’s command, Let there be light, was an equal amount of energy to that required to cause the water molecules of the deep to split, which caused a loud noise just as if the water was crying out as Jesus did:
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
However, this was not an accident and it was not a surprise. It was understood what would be necessary in order for us to be given life.
Matty (Headwind) 