Where Did Everything Come From?

If you look around I'm pretty sure you'll come to the conclusion that something exists. You should at least conclude that you exist because even if you decided that nothing exists, you'd be the one deciding that.

If you came to believe (or claim to believe) that nothing existed you would have to be wrong. You couldn't believe anything at all nothing was all that there was.

So, something exists. Whoever is reading this exists (you) and whoever wrote it exists (me).

Again, observing what's is around us, and doing a bit of reading, most people could conclude that the Universe exists. It's a rather big Universe, don't you think? At least in comparison to...well...you or me.

Which brings me to the title of this blog entry. Where did everything come from?

I used to love reading science books and articles. That's when I learned that for awhile some scientists figured we lived in a steady state universe that with molecules and stars and galaxies just rambling around here and there and eventually ending up back where they started before rambling off in another direction.

But as telescopes and astronomical measuring instruments got better, it became obvious that the Universe had a beginning.

Golly! The Universe had a beginning! Then that means that everything in the Universe (including you and me) had a beginning.

Well, where did everything (in the Universe) come from?

Everything couldn't come from anything that was part of the Universe because it didn't exist yet. And whatever caused the Universe to begin must be bigger and greater than anything that came into existence at the beginning or ever since then.

The only possibility of knowing how the universe began, and came to have all that is in the universe, is if whatever caused it to begin communicated that information to us. We certainly couldn't find it out on our own.

Since you and I are fairly intelligent self aware personal beings who are capable of learning and communicating, it seems reasonable that whatever caused us (and everything else) to exist must also be personal and communicating and...teaching. I say teaching rather than learning because anything we might be able to learn must already be known by whatever made everything.

If the one who made everything is personal and can communicate thdn perhaps that maker or creator has communicated in a way that we can comprehend.

If the Maker of Everything in the Universe has communicated in a way we can comprehend, what should we do about it?

Should we tell the maker, I'm not interested in what You have to say to us?

Should we just busy ourselves with other things and ignore, reject, and make excuses for not looking into or heeding what the Maker may want us to know about Himself, His Creation, and us?

There is a book that includes a lot of very interesting passages.

One of those passages says:

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"
(Gen 1:1) NKJV Thomas Nelson Publishers (c) 1982)

Another passage says:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.(John 1:1-3) NKJV Thomas Nelson Publishers (c)1982

It seems to me that the best word to identify the Maker of everything that exists is the word God. And there is a book that declares that "In the beginning, God made..."

Does this God want to communicate with us? Well, there is that book called the Bible where we read these things. We also read:

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us"
(John 1:14) NKJV (c) 1982 Thomas Nelson Publishers

If the One made everything is called the Word, and is the One who became flesh and dwelt among us, then shouldn't we give Him as much attention as we possibly can? Shouldn't we seek to learn from Him everything He wants to teach us?

If He has both given us a Book and come in the flesh to communicate with us and we deliberately and intentionally reject Him and what He has to say to us, would he be just in judging us?

Even if we try to convince ourselves that God wouldn't be just to judge us for rejecting Him and His Word, the only ones we'll be fooling is ourselves. The Creator who made everything is the only One who has the complete right and power to judge.

That should cause all of us to have enough fear and respect for the Maker to take whatever time it takes to learn what is in the book that might rightfully be called the written Word of God.

If the Bible is not the written Word of God then learning what is in it will at least give us some insights into some incredible writing.

If the Bible is the written Word of God, then learning what it in it may have consequences that are as eternal as the Holy God who inspired it to be written for us.