Einstein's success
EJD
Albert Einstein attempted to prove the eternality of matter and energy by a sophisticated mathematical formula. He succeeded. Or so everyone thought until the RedShift Nebulae were discovered by astronomers. There was no way to account for the molecules that made up the RedShift by Einstein's formula. It appeared that the molecules suddenly came into being from non-existence. Something from nothing is not science they reasoned and a closer examination of Einstein's brilliant formula proved there was an undiscovered error in it.
The steady-state universe or the idea that matter and energy always existed was believed from the time of the ancient Greeks. When Einstein wrote the formula that supposedly proved it, the world thought it finally settled the matter. But the sky proved the enterprise wrong. Three models were posed to explain the RedShift phenomena and the Big Bang became the primary choice. What we do know out of this is that there was a beginning. There was a time when the universe did not exist.
While there is a great dispute about the events subsequent to that beginning between Creationists and Evolutionists, there is no dispute about the fact that there was a beginning. Even in its rawest forms the distribution of matter and energy universe wide at the beginning out of nothing was an impossible event. There are only three possibilities to account for this:
- Creation out of nothing
- Self-Creation
- Creation by another
Creation out of nothing is simply impossible. From nothing nothing comes. Self-Creation is equally impossible for the creation must first exist in order to self-create itself. We are left with simply creation by another. This is something a child can readily understand. It's no wonder that another formula has been in the works for millenia and hasn't yet been falsified: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1).
It seems reasonable to have an all-powerful and an all-knowing creator to set in motion a universe with intelligence and design. But many dispute, blame, or find fault with the Creator because of the problem of evil in the world. Without the input of Genesis chapters 1-3, where the historic Fall is described, we become stuck in a state of disconnectedness with the Creator. Genesis labels the locus of evil on moral choice. We got ourselves in this mess. We turned Paradise into the cold, and dark cave that it appears to us now. The Creator became a creature in Yeshua to succeed where we failed and restore Paradise again. When we engage the Creator and Redeemer in the person of Yeshua the Messiah we have salvation indeed.
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