Comment on La Sierra University Granted Window to Show its Faithfulness to Church’s Creation Belief by Charles.

I think that our (humans) limitations to the finite sometimes cause us problems. It tries to demand that we ask “Who created the Creator?” We cannot comprehend infinities. How could it be that God had no beginnning but has always been? For me it seems a bit easier to comprehend infinity in time forward than infinity in time past. How could you describe “eternal life”? As the song says, “When we’ve been there 10,000 years… no less days to sing God’s praise than when we first begun.”

Try to describe the biggest number you can imagine. Put years after that number. What would we do with all that time? The idea presents a new infinity – the gathering of knowledge and understanding. And how about endless increasing LOVE?
Is there ever a point when it has all been done?

And where does the universe begin or end? As far as we can tell, it goes on and on with no end? Assuming that God has created everything (which I believe He has), was there ever a time when He was NOT creating or had not yet created anything? Follow that thought to His having been creating an ever expanding universe for eternity past. Is it possible that the universe continues on and on without end? Could there be an end to “space”? If so, what would be beyond it?

The reality is that we as humans cannot begin to comprehend a reality that hypothetically encompanses infinity. We just can’t do it because everything we know has beginnings and ends – whether it be time or space.

But the reality is that we are here. We cannot even explain our own existence and I think that to suggest that it is an accident is actually a major admission of our lack of intelligence.

Imagine that you could stand back and look at a universe with nothing in it. Then you say to yourself, “I want to make something” First of all you have to have “matter”. Then the matter has to have it’s various complex forms. Then you want to get life started within that matter. Consider the billions of complex miracles that have to be functioning in harmony to have that matter (once you have made it) take on the functions required to have “life” – even in its simplest form.

All of this is really here. How did it get started? Even with our human advances in knowledge and understanding of “science” we really cannot explain the most fundamental concept of what really constitutes life. We know when it is in some matter, and we can sure tell when it is gone. But we do not know what it is.

It takes faith to believe in anything about how we got to be here and what the realities of our world are. Given the account in scripture about these great questions, I find the explanation to be much more believable than the notion that it all just somehow happened.

But the important thing to acknowledge is that it is all so much bigger and greater than we are. Yes, infinity does exist and we cannot comprehend it because we are finite. The scriptural acocunt of it all is powerful and compelling for those who give it a fair chance.

There is so much more to say. But that is almost enough for now.

As I write this in the Eastern time zone of the US, the sun will go down in a little less than two hours. I have full confidence that although I do not know exactly how many years it has been since the Creation but I am certain of something: The number of days – including tomorrow – will be divisible by 7. And the number of days since the day that the first Man was created until today, is also divisible by 7.

Happy Sabbath, everyone!

Listen to the “still small voice” of your Creator. He WILL speak to you if you listen.

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