For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
(2 Corinthians 4:6) ESV
We’re discussing the very beginning of creation, Genesis 1:1-2, and we have an intriguing question: if God is light, in whom is no darkness at all, then why was there darkness upon the face of the deep?
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
(Revelation 1:8) ESV
If God can be trusted, and his promise to us is that He can be, then it will be possible to demonstrate a perfect harmonization between what the Bible teaches us and the world around us.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
(Genesis 1:1) ESV
Welcome to WHY? A year-long daily devotional. We’ll use the testimony of scripture, physical evidence and empirical observations to solve the riddle: WHY did God create the universe?
And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
(Revelation 21:15-17) KJV
1+1 = 2 is math, but it is also logical. It’s an example of cause and effect. The cause (1+1) produces the effect (2). God established the relationship between cause and effect when the Son, Jesus Christ, was begotten.
Do you think it’s possible to attack popular science (SciPop)? I mean, what would be the point, right? What possible purpose would it serve? Why on Earth would someone do that?
What if SciPop is a false theoretical construct, like the Matrix, designed to make you think that believing in God is stupid: the kind of thing that only idiots do? You know, uneducated, ignorant people. People you laugh at because you think you’re so much smarter than them.
What if the Bible is actually true? Being stupid in heaven is actually a better outcome than being intelligent in hell. Did you ever think about that?
What if it became necessary to expose the fact that SciPop has been meticulously constructed to make the Bible seem irrelevant? The reason why is complicated, but it comes down to our desire to be free from the judgment of God. Free to live our lives however we want and have no consequences.
What if someone was called to warn you that there are consequences?
Would it be like attacking SciPop?
Trinity: Nothing like this has ever been done before.
Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places. Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.
(Leviticus 7:26-27) KJV
IF the body is the dust of the Earth, AND the spirit is from God, THEN the soul is us: our consciousness and personality. But where is it? Is it a thing? What is it?
For there are three that bear record in Science, the IF, the THEN, and the THEREFORE: and these three are one.
– The Scientific Trinity
The traditional battle line of science vs. faith is a false dichotomy because what people call “science” is actually popular science (SciPop) which requires 3 aspects of faith: ignorance, motivational and developmental.