Bill King's Big Bang Theory...

 
Hi Everyone,

 

I have my own personal Big Bang Theory. In Genesis 1:1 we read; In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Not a real difficult concept. There was nothing until God made it. No Sun, Moon, Earth or Stars, nothing, period. [The entire first Chapter of Genesis 1 is at the end of this e-mail.] This doctrine in religious circles is called Ex-nihilo, Latin for "something from nothing". From nothing He created 100 billion galaxies like our Milky Way Galaxy each of which have 2 to 5 billion stars. So that's a minimum of 100,000,000,000 galaxies x 2,000,000,000 stars in each galaxy to a maximum of 100,000,000,000 galaxies with 5,000,000,000 stars each [and that's a scientific guess!] We've done the math before. A very large number of stars. Uncountable by human minds. So here's my theory, make that fact, because there is no theory about it. God created the universe 15 billion years ago. Did He create it all in six literal 24 hour days? I don't know and I probably don't need to know. Would it make a difference to me if it took 6 billion years for God to do it? My only question would be what was He up to in the unaccounted for 5 billion, 999 million years? Hah. What possible difference could any of that make on my sorry excuse for a life? Oh, by the way, YOU ask God what He was up to. Remember, no man has ever seen the face of God and lived. [God tells Moses this in Exodus 33:20, ²⁰And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.] Now here comes Paul the Attorney, writing to the Church at Rome.

 

Romans 1:19-20 (New Living Translation)

¹⁹ They know the truth about God because He has made it obvious to them. ²⁰ For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see His invisible qualities—His eternal power and Divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
 
He sounds pretty sure of himself, doesn't he. Saul of Tarsus [Paul before his conversion] was a leader in the Jewish church, there was no Christian church at this point. He was a rabbi or teacher as well as trained in the laws of Moses. Paul was an orthodox Jew amongst orthodox Jews. And here we have the head Jewish authority claiming the rocks and the stars scream out their testimony to their Creator God and that God placed everything in plain view so no one would have any excuse. So what does that do to the Big Bang Theory? In my own humble yet considered opinion I would say it reduces the argument to man's theories versus the Infallible Word of God. Between the two there can be no comparison. I would rather be totally wrong about God, Christ, Christianity and all it stands for than I would to be totally right about science and humanity and death and the grave being the end of everything. Am I making sense here? There is no comparison. Without God we have nothing. No life, no future, no hope, no joy. Nothing. I just think there is more to this than evolution from pond scum and a big bang that created billions of galaxies from a tablespoon of extremely heavy matter. I guess so. About as heavy as the grey matter in so many scientist's brains. It doesn't even make sense when you say it that way. And Christianity is nothing if not logical. Jesus said, Come, let us reason together. God Bless you in your own studies of His Word and as you work out your own salvation in fear and trembling. [Not by works, lest any man should boast.] ~bill king
 

Psalm 19:1-2
New International Version (NIV)   Psalm 19 For the director of music. A psalm of David.  1 The heavens declare the glory of God;        the skies proclaim the work of his hands.  2 Day after day they pour forth speech;        night after night they display knowledge.   New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973-1984 by International Bible Society
New American Standard Bible (NASB)   Psalm 19 The Works and the Word of God. For the choir director. A Psalm of David.     1The heavens are telling of the glory of God;          And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.     2Day to day pours forth speech,          And night to night reveals knowledge.   New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960-1995 by The Lockman Foundation
New Living Translation (NLT)   Psalm 19 For the choir director: A psalm of David.  1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God.       The skies display his craftsmanship.  2 Day after day they continue to speak;       night after night they make him known. New Living Translation (NLT) Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright © 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust
King James Version (KJV) Psalm 19  1The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.  2Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. King James Version (KJV)
Contemporary English Version (CEV)   Psalm 19 (A psalm by David for the music leader.) The Wonders of God and the Goodness of His Law  1The heavens keep telling    the wonders of God,    and the skies declare    what he has done.     2Each day informs    the following day;    each night announces    to the next.     Contemporary English Version (CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society

Psalm 19:1-2
New King James Version (NKJV)   Psalm 19 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.  1 The heavens declare the glory of God;          And the firmament shows His handiwork.  2 Day unto day utters speech,          And night unto night reveals knowledge. New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) Psalm 19 The Witness of Creation and Scripture For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.  1 The heavens declare the glory of God,     and the sky proclaims the work of His hands.     2 Day after day they pour out speech;     night after night they communicate knowledge.     Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) Copyright © 1999-2003 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
New Century Version (NCV)   Psalm 19 God's Works and Word For the director of music. A psalm of David.  1 The heavens declare the glory of God,        and the skies announce what his hands have made.  2 Day after day they tell the story;        night after night they tell it again. New Century Version (NCV) The Holy Bible, New Century Version®. Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Psalm 19 For the director of music. A psalm of David.  1 The heavens tell about the glory of God.       The skies show that his hands created them.  2 Day after day they speak about it.       Night after night they make it known. New International Reader's Version (NIRV) Copyright © 1996, 1998 by International Bible Society
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)   Psalm 19  1The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork.      2Day upon day uttereth speech, and night upon night showeth knowledge.     21st Century King James Version (KJ21) Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.

 

Psalm 19:1-2 (Today's New International Version)

Psalm 19

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

    ¹ The heavens declare the glory of God;
       the skies proclaim the work of his hands.     ² Day after day they pour forth speech;
       night after night they display knowledge.
 

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Genesis 1

 ¹In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

 ²And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

 ³And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

 ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

 ⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

 ⁶And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

 ⁷And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

 ⁸And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

 ⁹And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

 ¹⁰And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

 ¹¹And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

 ¹²And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 ¹³And the evening and the morning were the third day.

 ¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

 ¹⁵And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

 ¹⁶And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

 ¹⁷And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

 ¹⁸And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

 ¹⁹And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

 ²⁰And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

 ²¹And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 ²²And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

 ²³And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

 ²⁴And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

 ²⁵And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

 ²⁶And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 ²⁷So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 ²⁸And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

 ²⁹And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

 ³⁰And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

 ³¹And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.