“I declared them to you
from of old. Before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should
say, ‘My idol did them. My graven image and my molten image commanded them’” (Isaiah 48:5)
Recent blogs under the title “Why Didn’t God Talk ‘Scientific?’” established that the books of
the Holy Bible, and the opening chapters of the Book of Genesis in particular,
do not convey their message in scientific lingo. They also offer up a plausible explanation as
to why God may have chosen to communicate with the entire range of human beings
in the manner that we encounter in Holy Scripture.
At the same time, there are indicators across its pages
which hint at a Supernatural Author who breathed His insight through ordinary
human beings in the manner described by the Apostle Paul, “All Scripture is God-breathed [“theo-pneustos” in Greek] and is profitable for teaching, for reproof,
for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).
In the postings that lie ahead, I will unpack each of the
following themes. For now let it simply
be noted that each of them precedes scientific discovery by over 1500 years,
six of them within the last 100 years.
The universe had an absolute
beginning in the Big Bang (Genesis 1:1).
No new matter is being created (Gen. 2:1) — 1st law of thermodynamics.
The cosmos operates under fixed
laws (Jeremiah 33:25).
The universe is expanding (Job 9:8, Psalm 104:2; Isaiah
40:22; 42:5; 44:24; 45:12; 48:13; 51:13; Jeremiah
10:12; 51:15, and Zechariah 12:1).
The number of stars in the heavens is indirectly described as innumerable (Gen. 22:17, Jeremiah 33:22). Prior to the use of optical
instruments people saw at most a few thousand stars.
Stars differ from each other by the
elements they contain (1 Cor.15:41). Optical
instruments today are able to discern that different stars contain different
elements (depending on their stage in the history of the universe, and their
own “age”).
Time began at creation (Heb. 11:3 says God created time itself (“Áionas”). This word can be translated “eons” or “ages.” — It was Albert Einstein’s
discovery of “Relativity” which led him to conclude that out of the absolute
beginning all matter, energy, space, and even time itself came into existence.
The universe is running down
(Isaiah 40:6) — 2nd law of thermodynamics.
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