Genesis 1:2 – The Naked Prophet

April 18, 2021

Science is Faith

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
(Hebrews 11:1) ESV

When it’s impossible to measure absolute quantities, such as mass of the sun, then you use relative values: how much more massive is the sun than the Earth, for instance.

March 23, 2021

Deep Depths

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
(Proverbs 8:24) KJV

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
(Genesis 7:11) KJV

Depths, is a translation of the Hebrew word tehom. The same word is translated elsewhere as the deep, the deeps, depths and the great deep. It occurs, for instance, in the account of Noah’s flood.

February 9, 2021February 9, 2022

Physical Separation

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. (Daniel 12:3)

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
(Genesis 1:1) KJV

God intends to bring about a permanent physical separation of light from darkness. Light weight and light bearing are synonyms, like dark and heavy are. In general heavier, denser materials are darker.

January 14, 2021January 14, 2022

A Plan for Particle Physics

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
(Genesis 1:2) ESV

There’s a school of thought that the creation we live in was made from the remnants of an earlier one. In this narrative Genesis 1:1 describes a creation which was destroyed before the creative process begins in Genesis 1:2.

January 7, 2021

Wisdom

The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;
(Proverbs 3:19) ESV

We once speculated that wisdom was a synonym for God the Son, the only begotten, Jesus Christ. However we found that wisdom has the properties of an elemental particle.

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

From the Sixth Hour to the Ninth Hour

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
(Matthew 27:45) KJV

Another picture that we have which is part of the symbolism of Christ on the cross is that darkness came upon the world in the middle of the day. Things on Earth are patterned after things in the heavens.

January 5, 2021January 5, 2022

Darkness on the face of the Deep

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
(Genesis 1:2) ESV

The nature of free will is such that an individual can choose light or darkness. How can there be free will unless a choice is available? The Lord had to create a universe in which darkness exists.

December 11, 2020January 12, 2022

There was Never, Ever, Nothing

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
(Colossians 1:16-17) ESV

As strange as it may sound we have to overcome the ridiculous notion that God created the universe from nothing. Invisible isn’t nothing it’s unseen, like the air we breath. It’s made of atoms and molecules like everything else.

December 7, 2020January 1, 2022

Off the Deep End

For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
(1 John 5:7) NKJV

We’re going to go off the deep end which we found at the bottom of a rabbit hole: we’ll draw a direct connection between the Holy Trinity and particle physics. By doing so we arrive at a theory of first cause.

October 24, 2020February 2, 2021

Formless > Formed

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
(Genesis 1:2) ESV

In the beginning the deep was formless. The subsequent account of creation shows how form and function go through several rounds of increasing order and complexity. The first was to take on the form of a sphere.