QUESTIONS!

Questions!

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The Bible tells us where the universe and we ourselves come from: “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.” Exodus 20:11. How? “By the Word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.” Psalm 33:6. When? “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1. Was the earth molten in the beginning? “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2b. (If the earth had been molten in the beginning the Spirit would have hovered over steam not waters!) Did God simply speak and things that were not became things that are? “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.” Genesis 1:3.

If the triune God, i.e., Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit made everything in the beginning, then who made God? “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” Psalm 90:2. (God alone is eternal. To be eternal is to have no beginning and no end.)

When did time begin? Time began in the beginning when God created space, time, and matter. The trinity of space, time, and matter is creaturely and therefore has a beginning. What was there before the beginning? The triune God alone, who alone is not creaturely but is the sole Creator. Did God speak audibly and recordably, or was there simply just a ‘Big Bang” in the beginning? Again, “[T]he worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.” Hebrews 11:2b. Also, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” John 1:1-3. (Thus there was no “Big Bang” as commonly understood, because the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit brought creation into being over a period of six days.) Why did God take so long to make everything? He set a pattern for that which He formed in His own image to follow. (Thus we labour six days and rest every seventh, as did our Creator in the beginning.)

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Did God expend energy that He needed to rest the seventh day when He created the universe from nothing? “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.” Isaiah 40:28. What does the Triune God say to those who claim that the universe came into being by means other than God has revealed in His written Word? “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me if you have understanding?” Job 38:4.

Dear reader, you are not alone in your struggle to make sense of a universe so often working grief against us. Why are there earthquakes and tsunamis? Why are there wars? Why is there so much suffering and death? God has provided the answers for these and such like questions in His written Word. Therefore, “Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” Isaiah 55:6.

Where is God? “He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being.” Hebrews 17:27b&28a.