Making Of The Universe Series

THE MAKING OF THE UNIVERSE (Part 1 of 5)

Copyright Leslie A Turvey, January 1, 2007 laturvey@becon.org

What you are about to read is the result of the author’s research and thought. I do not claim it to be faultless, nor given by the inspiration of God’s holy spirit, but I do believe it to be true.

Make a pen dot on a piece of paper. Pretty small, isn’t it? Now compare it with a period in your local paper. That’s smaller. Open your bible, and find a semicolon. The dot is even smaller. Yet none of these are small enough.

“Wait a minute,” you say. “How small do you want it to be?”

Well, I really don’t know. And I don’t believe the scientists who imagined it know. But they say it once existed.

Search the big-bang theory in any encyclopedia and you’ll find something called a singularity floating around in the the vast black expanse of space. In this tiny dot, the scientists say, all the elements and energy required to make the universe were compacted together. Then one day – who knows how long ago? – the singularity exploded, and all those elements and energy developed into planets and moons and suns and stars which are rapidly moving away from the earth. But the outward movement is slowing down.

Some day – not in your lifetime, or mine – the scientists say the expansion will stop, and everything will collapse again into a miniscule singularity.

Now, if you can wrap your mind around that, I’ve got some star dust to sprinkle in your dreams.

Since the scientists live on planet earth, they apparently base the movement from planet earth. This would make it appear the singularity was in the same place the earth is today. But, what if it was where the planet Uranus is today? Or some planet or star as yet undiscovered? Wouldn’t the expansion then be in another direction? Wouldn’t the earth be moving away as well?

So many questions. So little evidence. And the scientists don’t even consider who, or what, created the singularity.

If the singularity did exist, the bible tells us who created it. John 1:1 says, “In the beginning was the Word….” Verse 3 tells us the Word made everything that has ever been made.

Without going into considerable detail, because many bible scholars have already done that, it’s safe to say the Word was the son of God, the one we know as Jesus Christ. Of course he wasn’t known by that name in the beginning, because when the angel appeared to Mary, he told her to name her son Jesus (Luke 1:31). But, through the entire bible, when the word Lord, or the Lord God appears, it refers to the one we have come to know as Jesus Christ.

So, that tiny singularity, if indeed it ever existed, was created by the saviour of the world, Jesus Christ. But why did it explode? Did Jesus do that? Or did he mess up in its creation, and something just happened to make it go bang?

I believe the bible tells another story, and I think you’ll find it fascinating.

It’s a story you’ll not likely find anywhere else, as the infinitesimal singularity idea is so deeply etched into the minds of scientists it’s doubtful they can could think any other way.

Part of the story is found in some religious literature, but that part is based on a pre-existence of the elements of the universe. Of course, the elements could not have occurred until someone created them. How could they exist before they were created? Gets rather sticky, doesn’t it?

You may contact the Life Lines author at laturvey@becon.org.

THE MAKING OF THE UNIVERSE (Part 2 of 5)

Copyright Leslie A Turvey, January 1, 2007 laturvey@becon.org

Scientists refer to the big bang of a singularity. Those who believe God use other terms.

Scientists are devoted to their singularity concept of the origin of the universe. Everything was in a tiny dot of material and energy that went bang. I think the whole theory went poof!

Creationists believe that God created every sun, moon, star, planet, asteroid, and whatever, and put them in their orbits so they wouldn’t collide. When he created the earth, the creationists say, it was formless and empty. Indeed, that’s what Genesis 1:2 seems to say. But does it really say that?

We begin our search for the answer in Job’s discussion with God. God thought Job was a pretty good fellow. He told satan there was no one like Job in all the earth. He was a perfect and upright man, who feared God and shunned evil (Job 1:8; 2:3).

God allowed satan to bring terrible sufferings on Job, and as the story progresses we see Job becoming angry with God. He told his companions how good he was. Didn’t God see that? Finally Job said he wished God would account for bringing the misfortunes on him (Job 31:35). In vs 37 he said he’d tell God how good he had been (vss 4-40).

But God asked Job, “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who measured it out? Who stretched the [plumb] line on it? Where are its foundations fastened? Who laid the corner stone for it (Job 38:4-6)?” God said nothing about making a tiny singularity.

Then after showing Job how insignificant he was, God asked another question: “Where were you when the angels sang and shouted for joy (vs 7)?” As the next few verses show, God’s question was right in the middle of discussing the construction of the earth.

Let’s return to Genesis 1:2 and consider whether the angels would sing praises for a nondescript chunk of rock floating around in space. But they would sing and shout for a magnificent globe crafted by God, with everything in its proper place.

Christians are fond of saying, “God don’t make junk.” Could we, then, imagine God making a formless and empty rock called earth? Let God answer:

“Thus says the Lord who created the heavens, God who formed the earth and made it. He has established it. He didn’t create it in vain. He formed it to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18).”

The words without form in the Genesis account, and in vain in Isaiah, both mean the same thing. They are translated from the Hebrew tôhû meaning to lie waste, a desolation, a worthless thing.

So, if God didn’t make the earth to be a useless piece of rock, as Genesis 1:2 seems to say, what does that verse really tell us?

You may contact the Life Lines author at laturvey@becon.org. 

THE MAKING OF THE UNIVERSE (Part 3 of 5)

Copyright Leslie A Turvey, January 28, 2007 laturvey@becon.org

God was the architect of a an earth so beautiful that the angels sang and shouted for joy at the sight of it. So what happened?

The scientists – (and the word science means to know) – say everything was compacted into that tiniest of tiny dots called a singularity. For some unknown reason, and at some undetermined time, the singularity exploded, and the universe was formed.

Creationists, as stated previously, believe that God created every sun, moon, star, planet, asteroid, and whatever, and put them in their orbits so they wouldn’t collide. And in speaking with Job, God referred to the constellation of Pleiades, and Orion, and Mazzaroth, and the stars of Arcturus (Job 38:31), thus seeming to uphold this idea.

The creationists turn to the bible for their information, but is the use of their information correct? We’ll see. Before we do, however, there’s sure to be someone who will accuse me of picking and choosing particular verses to support my argument.

If my accusers were doing a project requiring considerable research, would they simply select one book from the library and do all their research from it? Not if their research is to be trustworthy. They’d glean information from many sources, then develop their conclusion.

God spoke of this regarding bible research, when he said in Isaiah 28:10, “Precept [instruction] must be upon precept, line upon line, here at little, and there a little.” So, doing my research this way I find an interjection between God creating the heaven and the earth, and the earth becoming an empty wasteland.

Scientists speak of a minute singularity. But what if that singularity was huge? Immense? Humongous? Or even bigger than that? What if all the elements and energy required to make the universe were compacted together into one big ball?

To begin our research review Job 38:4-7, where we’ve already read God’s questions to Job (Part 2).

Next turn to Ezekiel 28:12-18 where we’re introduced to someone called the king of Tyrus. God said the king sealed up the sum, was full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. The New King James Version says, “You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.”

This king of Tyrus had been in Eden, the garden of God. And what garments he wore: sardius, topaz, diamonds, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphires, emeralds, carbuncles [garnet?], and gold. Musical instruments were prepared for him on the day he was created.

Created? Yes! If this king had been mortal the word would have been born. (Only one Hebrew word is used throughout the old testament for create. It is bârâ. Seven other distinctly different words are used for born. The word used here is bârâ.)

God said this king was an anointed cherub. Whoever, whatever this king was, he was specially chosen by God to cover or protect or defend the holy mountain of God. Many times in the bible the noun mountain refers to the seat of government. So this cherub – not the little bare-bottomed cherub on valentine cards – must have had great power and authority. And his pathways were paved with dazzling precious stones.

God don’t make junk, remember. And this cherub certainly was not junk. God said he was perfect, until iniquity [perverseness, unrighteousness, wickedness] was found in him.

The first thought in Ezekiel 28:16 is somewhat obscure, so I offer this: By the kowtowing and snivelling of lesser angels, he was filled with thoughts of violence. Those thoughts increased until he sinned, and was therefore cast out of the government of God.

This perfect creature must have had a huge ego, as he was told, “Your heart [mind] became obsessed with your beauty. You let your splendour corrupt your thinking. You have even defiled your sanctuaries [holy places] with your iniquities [perversions].”

So what had this cherub done that was so terrible?

You may contact the Life Lines author at laturvey@becon.org. 

THE MAKING OF THE UNIVERSE (Part 4 of 5)

Copyright Leslie A Turvey / 2007 laturvey@becon.org

From perfection to perver~sion. From beauty to abasement. But why? The prophet Isaiah picks up the story.

Recall that the now evil cherub had been in Eden, the garden of God (Part 3). But Eden could not have been heaven because he thought to himself, “I will ascend into heaven.” So wherever heaven is, it must have been above Eden. And since the cherub was on the holy mountain [seat of government] of God, that too must have been in Eden.

It seems God later removed his seat of government to heaven (Ezekiel 28:16), but Revelation 21:2 shows it will return to earth at a time yet future.

In Isaiah 14:12 we learn the cherub’s name. God said, “You have fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning. You have been cut down to the ground [the earth].” Lucifer’s name meant the morning star from the brilliance that surrounded him.

So Lucifer had decided to ascend to heaven. He would exalt his throne above the stars [angels] of God (vs 13). He thought, “I will ascend above the clouds (vs 14).” Therefore, wherever he was going would be beyond the atmosphere.

Until recently this would be impossible for oxygen-breathing beings, but this took place sometime in the distant past, so Lucifer must not have relied on oxygen for his life. Neither must God nor the angels.

There can’t be clouds without an atmosphere, and since Lucifer referred to clouds God must have created one. Why? Could it be there were air-breathing beings on this beautiful big ball in space? The remains of massive dinosaurs have been discovered around the earth, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we make similar discoveries on other planets.

Back to Lucifer: he was not going to heaven for a friendly visit. He determined to be (like) the Most High. He planned a coup to oust God from his place of authority.

(I have put parentheses around like, because a person who plans a coup doesn’t want to be like the president, or whomever he determines to overthrow. He wants to be the president or whatever. Lucifer wanted to be the Most High God.)

But would he attempt his coup alone? Remember I opined that some lesser angels filled his mind with thoughts of violence (Part 3).

The apostle John saw what appeared to be a great red dragon in heaven, which drew away a third of all the angels (Revelation 12:3-4a). Lucifer had amassed an angelic army, likely composed of those kowtowing and snivelling sycophants who filled his mind with thoughts of violence.

John saw the action. He wrote, “There was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels (vs 7).” But God’s would-be ousters failed in their plan, and they were booted out of heaven (vss 8-9). Lucifer’s glorious name was changed to the devil and satan. He is also known, in the bible, by several other names of scurrility.

What a war that must have been! Perhaps it raged on for eons. God’s big beautiful singularity called Eden was shattered into a zillion pieces which were thrown about to become planets and moons and stars and suns. One of those pieces was a formless rock covered with a roiling mass of water, described in Genesis 1:2 as earth.

You may contact the Life Lines author at laturvey@becon.org. 

THE MAKING OF THE UNIVERSE (Part 5 of 5)

Copyright Leslie A Turvey, February 11, 2007 laturvey@becon.org

God’s word is truth (John 17:17), but man’s interpretation of it sometimes leaves us with false impressions.

What you’ve read so far could be called Genesis 1½, an interjection between the original creation of Eden, and it’s destruction into a rock described as being without form and void (vs 2).

Something in vs 2 tends to verify all this. The Hebrew word hâyâh has been translated in many bible versions as was, but according to Dr James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, the proper translation is became. God didn’t create a useless rock called earth, but it became that way during the original star wars.

The genesis account is generally thought to describe the creation of the earth. In reality it is the re-creation, or renewal account.

If God had created everything in the first place, would he not have created light at the same time? Yet vs 3 indicates there was no light on the earth. Could it be that a dense cloud of space dust and debris obscured the sun’s light, and needed to be pulled back to allow the sun to shine through?

In vs 7 we’re told God made a firmament (atmosphere) in the midst of [between] the waters on the earth, and the clouds that would be above it.

Each step in Genesis 1 indicates a re-creation, or renewal of the globe we call earth, preparing it for God’s ultimate creation, man. And look where he put man: in a garden that was toward the east. But he didn’t say the garden was eastward in the earth, but eastward in Eden. God gave his renewed earth the same name he gave his original creation: Eden.

In Part 1 we read that scientists say the expansion of the universe will stop, and everything will collapse again into a miniscule singularity. And there’s a verse in the bible that seems to uphold the collapse. Revelation 6:13 says the stars of heaven fell to the earth. (It’s important to understand the writer of Revelation, the apostle John, was seeing events beyond our future, even though his words have been translated into the past tense.)

So science’s idea of a collapse seems to be on target, but will the collapse be a matter of the natural order of things? That’s doubtful.

Consider a ball thrown straight up into the air. It will eventually stop its upward journey, then return to where it was thrown from. But this is a matter of the earth’s gravity. Actually, earth’s gravity is relatively weak, otherwise the modern space station would never be able to stay in its present orbit.

Also, if earth’s gravity was strong enough to pull back the multitude of planets and stars and moons from the farthest reaches of the universe, it surely would have caused our moon to crash to earth long ago.

The one we know as Jesus Christ created all things (John 1:1-3), so he must have also created the orbits of each thing in space. When the stars of heaven fall to the earth (Revelation 6:13), it won’t be a natural event of gravity, but the result of God drawing everything out of their orbits, until that immense singularity has been recreated.

Jesus’ own words tend to uphold this concept. In Revelation 21:5 we hear him saying, “Behold I make all things new.” To make something new when it has already existed, means to renew it.

And will he renew the name of his big ball in space? It’s not hard to believe he will once again call it Eden.

Then, when everything is renewed and prepared, and the arch-demon satan, and his minions have been incarcerated in their place of eternal torment (Revelation 20:1-3, 10), the seat of God’s government, the new Jerusalem, will come to earth and at last God the father, and his son Jesus Christ, will dwell with mankind forever (Revelation 21:10-22:6)

You may contact the Life Lines author at laturvey@becon.org. 

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