013 Light and goodness |
16 Dec 08 |
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Let’s go back over the creation story in Genesis 1 and check it out: And God said ‘Let there be light’ .. God spoke and created light. The very first thing. Light. Not the sun, not a source of light, but light itself. The first thing. The starting point - the phenomenom of photons, the father of physics, the mother of matter, the template of time. It’s a thing called Light, but against it will mass and energy be measured. Light, the fundamental underlying denominator of the universe. If there isn’t a thing called Light there can’t be a thing called Matter and there can’t be a thing called Energy because as Einstein has revealed, they are in symbiotic relationship with each other. E=mc2. Energy equals the force of Matter that has been multiplied by the speed of Light squared. God did it by a word. Not with physical effort, but by speaking a word. And the book says that He saw that it was good… And so He spoke another word, and another… Without lifting a finger. He created all there is. Created it and set in place, fixed it with laws and rules so that there would be balance and justice. He described His steadfast goodness by making nature dependable and subject to laws which we could discover and manipulate. The goodness of God is embedded in creation in that the laws of nature are dependable and knowable. There is balance and reliability in nature and in God. Therefore there is justice and grace. The laws of Nature do not change and neither do God’s laws change. They are underwritten by the word of God. |
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| JAN 2009 |
NUMBER 013 |
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