The “Big Bang Theory”

     Original discoveries have continued to add to the progress that man has made throughout the centuries.  So many of the things that we take for granted today were not even imaginable just a short period of time ago.  And, while creationists should not have any trouble harmonizing their faith with the objectivity of hard science, that is not always true the other way around.

     Sin, heaven, hell and countless other articles of faith are often relegated to the field of mythology by brilliant scientific minds who contend that anything that can not be objectively measured and quantified is likely to fall into the realm of “science fiction.”  The “Big Bang Theory”

seeks to explain the origin of the universe from a state of high density and temperature to an extraordinary event that has created an ever expanding universe.  Because of the great amount of empirical evidence that has been amassed, while most scientists are in agreement with the data supporting the hypothesis, physics has not provided an acceptable theory of something called “quantum gravity” that can model the conditions at the time the “Big Bang” occurred.  What was the scientific cause?!  What if it was simply “words”?

     Consumed with self-centeredness, Lucifer was the most gifted of all the angels.  Isaiah describes what that pride led to: “How you have fallen from the heavens, O Morning Star, son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the earth, you who conquered nations! In your heart you said: ‘I will scale the heavens; Above the stars of God I will set up my throne; I will take my seat on the Mount of Assembly, on the heights of Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will be like the Most High!’ (14:12-14) Perhaps the “Big Bang” occurred when words similar to these, in Latin, were declared, “Non servium!”…I am not a servant!

     God’s own creation rebelled against its creator!  What could possibly be a more consequential action in the history of existence?  There could be no more powerful event than for Satan to pronounce that he was “like God”!

     Plan for an event of the greatest cataclysmic proportions when paradise itself experiences its first expulsion!  It is interesting that in regard to the “Big Bang Theory,” we read “general relativity requires that much of the energy in the universe consists of a component with large negative pressure, dubbed ‘dark energy.’”  While scientists certainly are not referring to evil, it was indeed “darkness” that was cast out by the source of all light and it was to have profound consequences.

     For that darkness was soon to descend upon the creations that God had made “in His image.” (Gen. 1:3)  Adam and Eve had been gifted with paradise, as well.  In order to have that for all eternity, they only had to do one thing…obey God’s commands.   But Satan could not bear to be tortured by the thought that mankind, this “inferior” creation of God, could ascend to a height that was no longer possible to itself and so it goes after Eve with its self-same temptation when he tells her “God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know good and evil.” (Gen: 3:5)

     Tranquility, love, and union with God was dependent on the decision that would be made.  There were just two choices.  Would she believe the truth she received from God and have everything, or the lie that she could be “like gods”.  Like Satan, the temptation to be a god was too great to resist.

     Among the many choices that we face each day, there is one that matters more than all the rest.  It is the same one that the angels had.  It is the same one that Adam and Eve had.  It is very simple while at the same time profound.  We either want to serve God or we want to “be” God!

     His patience with us can not last forever, for while He is a God of Love, he is also a God of Justice.  Today, we are witnessing unimaginable actions that are the exclusive domain of God.  Our free will was given to us so that we could love God, not “be” Him!  Man’s arrogance has become unbridled as sins against God become both more numerous and more unimaginable.  And the responsibility for these sins falls not just on the perpetrators but also on those who promote and encourage them.

     People are believing lies today, more than at any time in history, thanks to the rapid and universal forms of communication that are now available.  Ending the lives of babies in their mothers’ wombs are just an expression of a “right” that I have, not God, to choose whether someone lives or not. The “right” to choose what gender I am is mine to make, not God’s.  Pope Francis has been an outspoken critic of the perverse gender ideology so rampantly spreading throughout our country and the world , quoting his predecessor Benedict XVI in calling it "the epoch of sin against God the Creator." Instead of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, they have become shrines to ourselves where we place drugs, alcohol, sex, and material goods upon its altar.  The same two choices that mankind had at the start of existence will be the same two that we have at its end.  It is the individual, the family, the community, the state and the country that must choose between the two options and who will experience one of the only two consequences.  And, just like the universe where everything is expanding, so too is the “distance” between those who serve God and those wanting to be God.  “There is no middle ground on the path to salvation.”  If we stray from the path of serving God to any degree, we should not expect to find Him at the end of it.

James R. Sulliman, PhD