What was God doing before he made the world?

I chuckled to myself when I was asked this question. As innocuous as it sounds, the inability of most theologians to answer this question has lead the skeptics to ridicule the teachings of Christ. It was a few weeks ago when I came across a perfect answer for this question which was given by one of my favorite teachers, Ravi K. Zacharias. Heavily influenced by his words, I felt the need of disseminating the answer.

• What was God doing with all his time before he created?

The fifth-century A.D. Christian teacher Augustine had two answers to this question, one humorous and one serious. The first one was that God was spending his time preparing hell for people who ask questions like this! The serious one was that God didn’t have time on his hands, since there was no time before creation. Time began with creation. Before creation, time did not exist. The world did not begin by a creation in time but by a creation of time. But, you may think, if there was no time, what was there? The answer is, eternity. God is eternal, and the only thing prior to time was eternity.

Further, the question implies that an infinitely perfect being like God could get bored. Boredom, however is a sign of imperfection and dissatisfaction, and God is perfectly satisfied. Thus, there is no question of boredom. An infinitely creative mind can always find something interesting to do. Only finite minds that run out of things to do get bored.

Finally, the Christian God with whom I share a relationship with, has three persons who are in perfect fellowship. There is no way such a being could be bored or lonely. It is not the point of having someone to “talk to” but someone of perfect understanding, love, and companionship.

Pain And Suffering.

“I’ve been through so much anguish. Therefore I’ve got no reason to believe that there is a deity who loves me. If he existed, this wouldn’t happen to me.”

“I don’t believe in God because I hate the way Christians treat me.”

“Church has never accepted me for what I am. If this is what your God teaches, then I’m not willing to believe this God.”

This is what most ex-believers have to say on asked about their disbelief towards God. It is absolutely distasteful and disheartening when an ex-believers say these words. With much apprehension, I decided to make this post. “If your disbelief in God is because of the way the church treats you, your faith was in a building. Not in God.”  If disbelief in God is because you’ve suffered a while now, remember that pain and suffering are inevitable. Never did Christ ever tell us that we are not going to suffer. Instead Jesus said they are coming. Unlike some other religious leaders who wrote off pain and suffering as just being illusions, Jesus was honest. He told us the truth. He said in John 16:33, “You will have suffering in this world.” He did not say you might – he said it is going to happen. He warned us about suffering. But, he can save us from this suffering. The world is infected with pain and suffering. But to give a bold statement that God doesn’t exist is just like looking at the sky in the middle of the night and saying that the sun doesn’t exist. First Corinthians 13:12 says, “Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” The authenticity of the word is unquestionable.

Hanging onto the concept of suffering, it is imperative to talk about the biographical account of poetess/hymn-writer Annie Johnson Flint (1866- 1932). Hers is a story of both heartbreak and triumph. Born on Christmas Eve in the small town of Vineland, New Jersey, she was welcomed by Eldon and Jean Johnson as their greatest earthly gift. Three years later, little Annie would lose her mother, who died as she gave birth to Annie’s baby sister. Mr. Johnson, who himself was suffering from an incurable disease, willed the children to the Flint family who would bring them up in the Baptist faith. Latter part of her life i.e. a few years before she passed away, hers was a suffering which was so pathetic that no human can ever bear. Not one single day did she wake up without feeling the intensity of the pain. Her verses provided a solace for her in the long hours of suffering. Picture if you can the hopelessness of Annie’s position when she finally received the verdict of the doctors from the Clifton Springs Sanitarium — that henceforth she would be a helpless invalid. Her own parents had been taken from her in childhood, and her foster parents had both passed away. Her one sister was very frail and struggling to meet her own situation bravely. In later years, she always stated that her poems were born of the needs of others and not from her own need; but one knows full well that she never could have written as she did for the comfort and help of thousands of others if she had not had the background of facing those very crises in her own life. She could have given up her faith in God. There was no reason for her to draw breath. The marvelous thing is that Annie’s faith never faltered, and that she was at all times able to say, “Thy will be done.” 

Therefore we conclude with one of  Annie Johnson Flint’s most popular songs which is based on three Bible promises “He giveth more grace.” (James 4:6); “He increaseth strength.” (Isaiah 40:29); “Mercy unto you, and peace, and love be multiplied.” (Jude 2)

1. He giveth more grace as our burdens grow greater,
   He sendeth more strength as our labors increase;
   To added afflictions He addeth His mercy,
   To multiplied trials He multiplies peace.
2. When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
   When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
   When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
   Our Father’s full giving is only begun.
3. Fear not that thy need shall exceed His provision,
   Our God ever yearns His resources to share;
   Lean hard on the arm everlasting, availing;
   The Father both thee and thy load will upbear.
4. His love has no limits, His grace has no measure,
   His power no boundary known unto men;
   For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
   He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.

A Belief Straightened Out.

“Death and struggle for life is a wonderful thing. That’s how we get ahead.” Quoted from Charles Darwin “On The Origin Of species”, 1859.

Well coming back my belief, the creation view says that there was a flood (During the time of Noah). A universal flood. Based on which I would like to make to make a few scientific predictions.

1. Prediction that the earth will have hundreds of layers of strata. (Floods automatically do that. Get a jar of dirt, add water, shake it up and settle down and in 20 seconds we’ll have layers forming. It’s known with the name “Hydrologic Sorting” in science.)
2. Based on the Bible teaching of the flood, Prediction that there will be billions of fossils including coal and oil found in those layers.
3. Prediction that there will be huge canyons and deltas showing evidence of rapid erosion.
4. Prediction that there will be legends of this world wide flood found in cultures all over the earth.
5. Prediction that the Bible would predict that we would find the above things.

I would leave it to our own conscience if the above stated predictions have come true.

Meanwhile let me take a few minutes of your time and define “Science” and “Religion”. “Science is Knowledge. Knowledge gained by observation, study and testing.” “Religion is a system of faith”. I love science. There is absolutely nothing against science in this post. But it is against using lies to support a theory. The contention is that is there is nothing scientific about the “Evolution Theory”. Our evolutionists say they have evidence for evolution. What sort of evidence do they give? We’re just about to see. Now to breakdown what evolution really teaches, we have:

• Cosmic Evolution – The origin of time, space and matter. i.e. the Big Bang.
• Chemical Evolution – The origin of higher elements from Hydrogen. (It is teached that the Big Bang produced Hydrogen. How did we get the other elements? Are we supposed to believe that uranium evolved from Hydrogen? If the answer for this is that the fusion of stars made it, then make a note that no one has ever observed the fusion or formation of stars. Also we have a “Chicken – Egg” problem. What came first? The elements made stars or the stars made elements?
• Stellar Evolution – Origin of stars and planets. ( Again, No one has ever seen them form. Hence not observable. It has been estimated that every person on earth can personally own 11 trillion of them. “Astronomy and the Bible, Donald Deyoung”. That’s how many they are. But no one has ever seen one form. Something to think about.)
• Organic Evolution – Origin of Life. (Not observable.)
• Macro Evolution – Changing of one kind of plant or animal into another kind. i.e. Monkey to man. (We have never see it happen.)
• Then we have variation within kinds. This is observable. But there is no evolving of something here. A dalmatian dog gives birth to a dalmatian dog. A pug gives birth to a pug. They are variations of dogs. But all are dogs. Not any other animal.

If mine is a religion as it’s based on faith, the evolution is a religion too. If a scientific atheist believes in the evolution, then they can. But they certainly shouldn’t call it Science because it can’t be observed, studied or tested. The above mentioned types of Evolution are religious. Not a shred of evidence to back it up. If they call Christianity a religion, they are forgetting the very own fact that theirs is a religion too. And before it slips off of my head, Fossil Record cannot possibly be used as an evidence for evolution as my brothers and sisters, Fossils do not come with time and date. And also the prediction of the biblical view that fossils would be found has already been made. So duh! And also if you still base the argument that the Big Bang is true, then my friends, please take time to go through #post2 which is “Why creationism is the only possibility”. Even if my theory is false, I think I certainly have the experiential evidence of my faith in the word of God.

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Note: The post contains references from Dr. Kent Hovind’s research material.

Mere Christianity.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it?

A man feels wet when he falls into water, because a man is not a water animal: A fish would not feel wet. Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying that it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, the argument against God collapsed too – for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies.

Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist – in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless – I found that I was forced to assume that one part of reality – namely my idea of justice – was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

#CSLewis

Why was God resentful in the Old Testament and loving in the New Testament?

Admirable question by an atheist friend!

It is a false dichotomy that God was judgmental and bitter throughout the Old Testament. How can I approve this statement? Well look at the Old Testament, you need to first see what it is that was being accomplished there. The moral law was given to the people with a dynamic attendance of the supernatural and the miracles. Go through the book of Exodus. Punctuated miracles, from the time of creation, the time of Moses, the time of Elijah and Elisha. Those were the classic periods of miracles and when the dramatic disclosure of God was attended by incontrovertible evidence like food coming from the heaven, double portion coming before the Sabbath, when the bitterness from the water is taken away. And in proportion to the nature of the dramatic miracles, it was a rightful expectation of God for compliance and obedience, because if you don’t obey in the phase of such dramatic revelation, you will never obey no matter what happens.

Secondly God was building a covenant to people through whom he was going to disclose himself and in that covenant relationship, we hear such extraordinary statements which portray his love. For example Isaiah 5:4 says “What more could I have done for you that I have not already done? Why, when I expected it to produce good grapes did it produce worthless ones?” That statement is a magnificent exposition of the love of God. The book of Hosea where the prophet Hosea marries a Harlot who wherefore goes back to the brothel to please the other men, God commands Hosea in Hosea 3:1 “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.” Now this is the ultimate expression of Grace.

Therefore when we come to a conclusion that the Old Testament is a hard concept of law and judgement, we are missing that the proportion of compliance and obedience that God expected from the people was never returned back to him. Hence we conclude with the book of Malachi which is the last book in the Old Testament which begins to say “I have loved you. And yet you say how have you loved us?” The love of God is the central feature of the Old and the New testament.

#GodBlessUsAll

Why Creationism Is The Only Possibility.

The Law Of Conservation Of Angular Momentum:

The Law of Conversation of Angular Momentum causes very serious problems for the Big Bang Theory. One way to understand the Law of Conversation of Angular Momentum is to illustrate this law of Physics with a practical example.

A roundabout in a children’s play area. Let us imagine that we have some children playing on a roundabout in a children’s play area.

– Phase 1: We ask three out of the children to sit on the roundabout and hold tight, and the remaining two children to spin the roundabout.

– Phase 2: The roundabout is now travelling at 30 mph, and the children pushing the roundabout are beginning to perspire.

– Phase 3: When the roundabout is spinning quite fast at 60 mph, the children on the roundabout are beginning to become frightened. They cry out, “Stop! Stop! Please slow down!”

– Phase 4: When the roundabout begins to spin much faster at 100mph, such is the gravitational forces on the children sitting on the roundabout that they all fly off the roundabout.

– Phase 5; Because of the Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum the children will all fly off the roundabout moving in the same direction as the roundabout. If the roundabout was rotating clockwise, the children will also be rotating clockwise.

The Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum can now be applied to the Big Bang Theory

– In the case of the Big Bang Theory the “singularity” was supposed to have spun very fast, and then exploded in a frictionless environment, which the Universe must have been if all the matter was concentrated at one point.

– According to the Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum, all the planets should spin in the same direction.

– We know from observation of the planets in our Solar System that the planets Venus, Uranus and possibly Pluto spin in the opposite direction to the other six planets.

– In addition to that, there are 63 known moons of the planets. Of these moons, six spin in the opposite direction to the remaining 57.

– In our Solar System, three of the planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, have moons orbiting in both directions.

– The above facts are quoted from “Astronomical Almanac for the year 1989” (Wash. DC U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989)

– From the Law of Conservation of Linear Momentum we can see that if our Solar System evolved spontaneously by a Big Bang, all the moons should orbit their planets in the same direction.

– The only exception to this would be if they encountered a large mass, such as another planet.

– However, this event should certainly have left a crater, which it would have been observed by astronomers.

– Observations of our Solar System do NOT support the big Bang Theory.

Difference of angular momentum of the Sun and the planets

The Sun actually spins very much more slowly than the planets. This certainly does not support the Big Bang Theory, as explained in the following quotation:

“This (Angular Momentum) would have caused the Sun to spin very rapidly. Actually, our Sun spins very slowly, while the planets move very rapidly around the Sun. In fact, although the Sun has over 99% of the mass of the solar system, it has only 2% of the angular momentum. This pattern is directly opposite to the pattern predicted for the nebular hypothesis.” Quoted from Dr. H. Reeves “The Origin of the Solar System”, in “The Origin of the Solar System”, Dermott, S.F. Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York , 1978

Evolutionist cannot explain the angular momentum of the Solar System:

“The ultimate origin of the solar system’s angular momentum remains obscure.” Quoted from solar system Evolutionist scientist, Dr. Stuart Ross Taylor, “Solar System Evolution, A New Perspective,” Cambridge University Press, 1992, Dr. Stuart Ross Taylor.

Conservation of Angular Momentum

The Milky Way is “lumpy”
If the Big Bang Theory were true, the planets would all spin in the same direction, and the matter would be evenly distributed through the Solar System. Instead it is “lumpy”. Throughout the Milky Way there are clusters of stars, then great areas of empty space.

Hence we see that the Big Bang is only an illusion to drive people away from believing the creationism. Why? Because creationism is the only alternative left. I believe in the bible , without a doubt, 100%.

“The above notes is taken from Dr. Kent Hovind’s research material.”

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God Bless Us All.

If there is God, Why is there suffering in the world?

No! It’s not an another diplomatic essay you’ll find on the internet. And that question must have popped up in the minds of every “Human Being“. And “Human Being“ refers to Believers, Non-Believers, Atheists, Agnostic, Gnostic, Satanists, and every other belief system that can possibly exist in the world. I’m a believer in Christ. And this might just be the levelheaded, biblical, explanation you need.

Let’s break down the question into parts so that we don’t disremember the precise meaning of each word in that question.

God– Christ. Suffering– Pain, sorrow, disease, disgust. World– You, me and every living creature on the face of earth.

Now if you’re one of those who’s desperate for the answer, your ideology behind God might just be this.

• God is the creator. (Hence he created suffering, sin.)
• God is all-powerful. (Yet he is incapable of destroying sin.)
• God is love. (But is being malevolent towards his creation.)

So let’s look at this objectively. “God never created sin. The devil did.” Oops! Too ridiculous? too childish? too boring? too monotonous? No matter how much you deny it, the truth is that simple my friends. How? Here we go.

1 John 3:8 says “The devil sinneth from the beginning.”  Therefore sin in the world originated from the arching villain that we often call Satan. Counter Question: “Well God is the creator. Why did he create Satan? Why would he create something evil?”

God never created Satan. He created Lucifer the angel, the most beautiful, the high priest of heaven. And Lucifer was blameless. The connotation for Lucifer is “The one who brings light.“

Ezekiel 28:15 says “You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.” Counter Question: “Why would he create a Lucifer with wickedness?”

Folks, God created the angels just as we are created (With a free will to love and worship God.) Lucifer turned wicked because he started to be Narcissistic because of his beauty and wisdom. Counter Question: “Why didn’t God just pre-program the angels so that they’ll forever love him, so that they never turn wicked?”

Well the answer is clean. If you force someone to love you, It’s not love. It’s rape. It pleases you more when someone willfully says I love you. Doesn’t it?

And talking about God being malevolent to his creation, it was never true nor will it be. The word says “For God so loved the world, that he only gave his begotten son…” Not because he so hated.. But he so loved!

Therefore Devil has always been the reason for suffering. Let’s conclude with the book of Job. Job was upright, honest and righteous. And the devil was the one who brought sickness and boils from his head to his foot. The devil went from the presence of the Lord and brought forth a tornado which destroyed his house and killed his children. The devil burned his flock of sheep, camel and Ox. “The people blamed God and not the Devil.” Which is exactly the reason why this question is planted deep in our minds. Job could’ve turned rebellious towards God but he never did. Counter question: “Why did God keep quiet while his faithful servant was being destroyed?”

You wanna know what God did? Job 42:12 says The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

Rational answer for an irrational question.

God Bless Us All.

Found!

I’m just the boy inside the man, not exactly who you think I am.
Trying to trace my steps back here again so many times.
I’m just a speck inside your head, you came and made me who I am.
I remember where it all began so clearly.

I feel a million miles away, still you connect me in your way.
And you create in me something I would’ve never seen.

When I could only see the floor, you made my window a door.
So when they say they don’t believe, I hope that they see You and Me.

After all the lights go down, I’m just the words you are the sound.
A strange type of chemistry, how you’ve become a part of me.
And when I sit alone at night, your thoughts burn through me like a fire.
You’re the only one who knows who I really am.