The Island of Logic

I am going to delve momentarily into what I believe is the highly controversial subject of the age of the universe. I am going to take a position that many Christians may believe is almost sacrilegious. I have been giving this subject quite a bit of thought and study lately. The accepted secular opinion is that the age of the universe is somewhere around 13 billion years and most Christians believe the age of the universe is somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 years. I am beginning to believe that both of these opinions have some truth to them. Let’s get one thing straight before we get started, “God created the universe”. This is really without dispute. Intelligent design is the only logical explanation for all of this. The mathematical probability of the Big Bang theory or unintelligent design is simply far too enormous to be even accepted by any logical person. The only argument that should exist is between the agnostic and the believer of a caring Creator. The accelerating expansion of the universe and the left over energy of the “Big Bang” have been proved and are without dispute. I however do not believe that these two evidences prove the Big Bang theory, but they are the result of God’s creation of the universe. God created the universe sometime between 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. However when God created the universe he created time before there was time, or maybe stated in a little better way, God created the history of time when he created time. This I believe can be simply proven by looking into the night sky. If we as Christians believe that the age of time is 6,000 to 10,000 years ago end of story, then this simplistic view can be disproved by the viewing the stars and galaxies in the night sky. With our naked eye we can see galaxies that are 10s of millions of light years away. If the age of time was exactly 6,000 to 10,000 years of age there would only be a hand full of stars visible to us. So when God created the universe he created the history of light. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to believe that He also created the history of fossils, geological events, meteor impacts, ice ages, etc., which are really also part of the history of light. To believe that the only source of geological monuments (Rockies, Grand Canyon, etc), oil, fossils, etc. is the Flood; is simply stupid. Another opinion some Christians have is that God created universe around 13 billion years ago and then created our solar system 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. I believe that this theory is disproved by Genesis 1:3 KJV “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” and Genesis 1:16 KJV “And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.” The simplest explanation is then, God created the history of time when he created time. In looking at the current accelerating expansion of the universe we can fairly accurately predict the beginning of this history of time and that is a little over 13 billion years ago. There will also be an end to time (Revelations 1:8 KJV “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”). Time is finite, eternity is infinite. What makes eternity infinite is the absence of time. Peter tries  to explain it II Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” in other words time means nothing (or does not exist) in eternity. Now to throw away some of my previous assumptions, if time and space themselves are made relative by large gravitational forces while light is a constant as predicted by Einstein’s Theory of Relativity then our predictions of the age of the history of time may be quite substantially inaccurate. God may have stretched the space/time continuum to the point that we result in our current predictions. Which also means, that in theory, time travel is possible. Maybe we will never really know the age of time in the universe until time ends for us, but it sure is fun to try?? Maybe a more appropriate title for this blog entry is the difference between the age of time and the age of the universe. Age of time, according to our calculations, 13 billion plus years. Age of the universe 6,000 to 10,000 years relatively speaking. :)

In times of  pain
We don’t understand
Why, Lord, why me?
I can’t even stand

But always remember
God is in control
And in times like these
He’s guarding your soul

God is always there
Through thick and thin
And in troubled times
You can only win

When the storms of life
Pound us near and far
Remember Christ, look at his hand
And see His nail scar

God Himself died for you
He won’t leave you now
Thank Him that He’s in control
And gladly before Him bow

I want to thank you, Lord
For your love in my life
And the way you always care
Among this earthly and sensual strife

Thank you, that you cared for me
Even when I didn’t care
You just wanted me to see
That I have to step out and dare

Thank you for all the gifts
That I never deserved
You gave them freely, anyway
And from me you never swerved

What is the meaning of faith?
What is the impossible?
Is the impossible ever possible?
These have haunted thinkers for centuries.
They still trouble us today.
Faith is not the possible.
Faith is believing the impossible.
Faith is the opposite of logic.
Faith and logic do not combine.
They cannot be mixed.
Logic is what squelches faith.
It rips and tears it apart,
but only if you allow it.
Faith in the impossible is what destroys logic.
Faith and the impossible are an element not to be separated.
Without the impossible there would be no faith.
They walk together hand in hand.
The impossible is not logical.
It boggles the mind.
It stretches the imagination.
It races into the unknown.
And we become afraid to follow it.
The impossible is around us every day.
And we, blinded by logic don’t see it.
The impossible is what occurred 7,000 years ago.
It happened again 5,000 years later.
It surrounds you even now.
Search for it.
Find it.
Then believe it.
Don’t let logic destroy it.
Step into unknown.
Not only believe the impossible.
DO IT!
Step out in faith,
but not alone.
Walk with the Master of the Impossible.