Chapter 3
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.--John 1:3
First, Jesus created tiny particles of matter, enough to
fill a universe large enough to hold man and give him an expanse of heavens to
gaze upon in awe and wonder. This Cosmic
Baker then packed all of this matter together into a tiny ball of tightly
packed particles like so much pizza dough.
This mass of tightly packed particles, known as the singularity,
contained all of the mass that would ever exist in the universe.[i]
Like everything else in the heavenly realm, the Holy Spirit
surrounded the singularity, consecrating it for its purpose.
Jesus set the singularity in the heavens, and as the hosts
of heavens watched, he waved his hand over it and said “Let there be light!”
Immediately, a brilliant flash of light exploded from what
was the singularity. As matter reacted
with anti-matter causing annihilation of both into photons the new universe began
to expand rapidly.
Within the slightest fraction of a second the universe was
spoken into existence. The heavenly
hosts cheered in unison with joyfulness and exultation[ii]
– the universe was born and with it the ultimate plan of God was set into
motion. A sense of awesomeness permeated
the heavens as Jesus did his work. All
the while the heavenly hosts looked on with excited anticipation.
Slightly more matter existed than anti-matter, so when the
anti-matter was exhausted the universe began to take shape, formed from the
matter which was left-over.
Random quantum fluctuations inflated rapidly from the tiny
quantum world to a macroscopic landscape of astronomical proportions.
Jesus continued to move his arms in a slow but steady
rotation. The force of God known as
gravity caused the matter which now comprised the universe to coalesce into
ever growing masses.
Within a fraction of a second from the initial explosion, the
matter which was not annihilated by anti-matter coalesced into the elements of
hydrogen, helium and lithium, the lightest of the elements which would come to
exist within the universe.
The force of gravity drew these initial elements together to
form massive, intense stars which exploded again and again forming heavier elements
including carbon and oxygen – the building blocks of life.
As the universe expanded, tiny variations in the amount of
matter from one location to another allowed gravity to take hold pulling the
heavier elements together forming ever larger clusters of matter.
Like a master painter, Jesus carefully controlled the
expansion of the universe by closely controlling the rate of expansion[iii]. If the expansion rate was too fast the entire
universe would collapse under the force of gravity into nothing but black holes
and supernovae. If the expansion rate
was too fast the universe would remain a cloud of loose particles and would
never form into a useful abode for man. Jesus
caused Dark Energy to envelop these newly forming galaxies, keeping the
universe expanding at exactly the right rate for life to be created and to
flourish.[iv]
At his slightest thought, the elements of the universe formed
galaxies, stars, and planets. It was a
masterpiece of divine engineering. It
was all being formed in concert for a single purpose – to host those He would
create who would choose to love him.
Jesus withdrew from the earthly realm into the heavenly
realm. By His power the universe was
taking form, without it the entire universe would decay into nothingness as the
entropy He built into the system exerted itself against the progression of
events unfolding before Him.[v] By the will of God alone the universe exists.
Back in the throne room the triune God gazed at the timeline
of the universe from its birth until it was given over to entropy and ceased to
exist in any tangible form, the earthly realm from beginning to end. He saw that it was good and He was pleased.
As the time passed in the earthly realm, guided by the will
of God, the explosion of stars occurred less and less frequently and the
universe began to take shape.
In the heavenly realm, the goodness of the Lord abolishes
all evil as the light of His glory abolishes all darkness. In the earthly realm, however, man would have
the ability to choose to ignore the good and embrace the evil which is simply
the lack of good. In the same way, in
the earthly realm, darkness prevailed where there was an absence of light. In many more ways in coming eons the physical
world would reflect the realities of the spiritual. It was all a part of God’s perfect plan.
Jesus watched as His divine plan took shape. As the worlds and stars began to coalesce He
named each one paying particular attention to the ball of loosely packed rock,
metal and ice which He named Earth. This
was no ordinary planet. This would
become the home of the beings whom He would create to worship Him.
The Holy Spirit moved upon the Earth and surrounded it
consecrating it for the life it was soon to support.
At its core was molten rock and metal and its surface was
covered in ice. A dense blanket of dust,
carbon dioxide and water surrounded the planet from the surface to a distance
of several miles as Earth’s gravity pulled the cosmic cloud of matter
inward. The matter was so dense that no
hint of light could reach the surface from the nearby star.
The darkness God called night and the light He
called Day.
[i] Newton’s First Law of
Thermodynamics (aka the Law of Conservation of Energy) tells us that in a
system (the universe), all of the energy exists that will ever exist. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Einstein’s theory of relativity equates
energy with mass. E=mc2 says
that energy is mass (or weight) times the speed of light, squared (9x1016). Therefore, all of the mass that will ever
exist in the universe currently exists.
[ii] Job38:7
[iii] Job
9:8 says that God “stretches out the heavens”.
This implies and active participation in the exact rate of expansion of the
universe to support the life he would later create to inhabit it.
[iv]
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_life.html
[v] Simply stated, the Second Law of
Thermodynamics says: Energy spontaneously tends to flow only from being
concentrated in one place to becoming diffused or dispersed and spread
out. This means that unless something
stops it, everything in the universe would disperse into nothingness. Stated another way all things in the universe
move toward decay.
In case the reader wonders, technically stated it says: the
entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase
over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium, and that the entropy
change dS of a system undergoing any infinitesimal reversible process is given
by δq / T, where δq is the heat supplied to the system and T is the absolute
temperature of the system.
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