The Beginning of the Universe

When I think about it, I've always been fascinated by astronomy. Space, the great unknown, the last frontier. It's marvelous, it's awe inspiring, it's big beyond anything else. The universe. The earth spinning around the sun with nothing to support it. Well the Bible tells you that the earth hangs on nothing (see Job 26) haha, we didn't have to go out into space to figure that one out. There are so many mysteries with space, so many unknowns. What's up there? What's beyond the observable universe? Heaven perhaps? Another dimension? (is that Biblical?)

An interesting article I looked up on google talks about what Astronomers say about the beginning of the universe. The interesting thing is scientists don't have an answer to what happened before then. Or rather they don't have an answer that science can prove.

But what happened before the Big Bang? That stops Astronomy Chair Craig
Hogan dead in his tracks. "What, you're not greedy or anything, are you?," he asks with incredulity that anyone would not be satisfied to know what happened over 13.7 billion years after the Big Bang.

And then he pauses, thoughtfully: "What happened before?," he muses. "No one could really know. All memory of that time is lost, everything from then is forgotten. That was a period of such catastrophic instability that it just doesn't remember what came before it. We probably could never find out, either. There just isn't any information left over from it."

Margon has addressed this question, too. As he told the Washington Post last
year, "One would think that if someone has trouble reconciling religion with physics,
they would like the Big Bang. It has beautiful elements of ultimate mystery."

What happened before the Big Bang is a very good question, even an important question. But because there’s no possibility of physical evidence from this period, it’s not a question that science can address.

I've always said two people can look at the exact same thing and walk away with totally different conclusions. I'm sure there are people that say the big bang either supports or disproves religion. Talk to me about sentience, how is it that we come to think, to speak, to live. You gather up all the different elements that make up the human body, compose flesh, even organs perhaps, but how do you make it live? Life breeds life, humans can't create life from death, but God can. The interesting thing is where science doesn't have an answer, religion does. It may not be an answer that satisfies all, but it still answers the question.

Where did everything come from? God made it.
Where do life, sentience, and living come from? God breaths life into people.
Where did God come from? He was always there.
That doesn't make sense, something had to create God. Well no, He isn't restricted by the rules of this existence. Things like conservation of energy and mass, gravity, life, death, nature, etc. He exists, but not as we know existence. (what's interesting is that in the man Jesus, God subjected Himself to His own creation, it boggles my mind to think about that).

It may be a question that I'll never have the answer to. At least not on this side of eternity. Eternity is a really long time. In fact it's forever. It makes me wonder, why are things the way they are now? The child starving in the streets doesn't have time to ponder these things. He's concerned about surviving. The soldier fighting a war doesn't have time to ponder these things. He's concerned about surviving. The man on his deathbed, perhaps wishes he had pondered these things earlier in life and had lived according to eternity.

In a billion years, a lot of things won't matter. Money... Fame... Popularity... Positions... Grades... Jobs... Pleasure... Pain... Friends... What will last? Treasures in Heaven? What does that mean? One thing, I know God keeps in Heaven, the prayers of the saints. He doesn't keep your church attendance, He doesn't keep your preaching, He doesn't even keep your good deeds. (He keeps record of these things though). What causes a celebration in heaven? It's not when we get our dream job, or donate millions to charity or missions, or even when we overcome our sin. When the lost are found, when the dead come to life, that causes Heaven to celebrate. Even then, this life shouldn't be focused on evangelism, but on knowing the Father's heart, which leads to evangelism, but the latter without the former is powerless and meaningless.

A billion years is a long time... Eternity is even longer... It's really scary actually. I'm betting my eternity on this Christianity thing, no, on Jesus Christ. I've gone all in for Jesus, but at the same time, I hold back in this life. What is it to gain the whole world, yet forfeit your soul. We'll settle for little pieces of the world in exchange for our soul. Is it worth it? If we could see in light of eternity would we make a different choice?