God Creates The Big Bang (MP 2)

The infinite empty void that was space
Surrounded God; He exhaled, and said, “Be!”
His flaming breath gushed and began to race,
Like a dense swarm of bees glad to be free!
The swarm spread out and away at high speed;
Some joined others, forming furnace-hot stars;
Each fled from each as if compelled indeed,
Fleeing outward, as cowards flee from wars!
Galaxies, planets, and moons formed in time;
Gravity’s Law dictated their places;
Nature worked its will, giving each its clime;
But o’er it all no life yet left its traces!
The farther it spread, the faster it went,
All instructed by God’s inborn intent!

Scripture Quored: Psalm 8:3-4 (NIV)
"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man, that you are mindful of hi?"

(Note: This is the second poem andcommentary in my series on God’s Master Plan for the world.)

Commentary
God was alone in an infinite void when He launched His plan for the world. There was nothing to begin with—no universe; no energy; no solids; no light or heat; no time measurement—nothing but void. The Master Plan for the world was complete in every detail—creation of the universe, earth, and man; time, including its beginning, history within it, and ending; and the everlasting life that follows time. God had a Book of Life, in which was inscribed the names of all human beings to be conceived in every woman’s womb; He knew exactly every name that would be blotted out of it and every name that would not be blotted out. Those whose names were still in the Book of Life at the end of time would dwell eternally with God. All these things and everything else were known to God before He launched the universe with the “Big Bang”.

The Big Bang was not a “bang”, because there was no sound. God exhaled an inexhaustible supply of energy at a super heat, and He uttered the word, “Be”. Immediately a vapor-like cloud exploded and expanded in all directions—up, down, and around—racing outward at thousands of miles a second, cooling rapidly and, in time, forming quarks, luons, neutrons, and protons. Solid matter of all kinds eventually was formed from the energy emitted by God. When man began to measure time, science determined that the Big Bang occurred 13.7 billion years ago, which is how old the world is. The universe that we live in is still expanding; it all came from God with presumably His first exhalation of energy.

All instructions for the formation of the universe, including the laws of nature, were permanently inherent within the exhalation and spoken voice of God; He did not have to continuously direct the processes that took place. All nature is subject to the supreme Being, who can suspend or reverse any natural law. The energy and solid matter contained in the world all came from God and remains ready to respond to Him at all times.

Why did God undertake His Plan for the world? He did not need to do it, but He was existing alone, and He wanted fellowship with other beings like Himself. He has an abundance of love, mercy, and grace, and He decided to create a race of men and women having free will, some of whom would choose to live righteously; in so doing they would glorify Him, and He could share His love, mercy, and grace. He knew the men and women would have to be tested to separate those whose attitudes toward Him were sincere from those who were not; therefore He needed a safe place for them to live briefly as a place of testing. The universe was created to provide a place where men and women could sustain their lives while being tested for fitness to dwell with Him forever; He knew that not one man or woman would pass the fitness test on his or her own, but He determined to give His own righteousness to those whose attitudes were fit.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him will not die, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“That if you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9)