Why the Universe is the Way It Is? by Hugh Ross

Why the Universe is the Way It is? Pg 126 “The authors of Scripture explicitly and repeatedly state that the universe had a beginning:

·      Gen 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

·      Gen 2:3 & 4 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

·      Psalm 148:5 Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.

·      Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high and see who created these?

·      Isaiah 42:5 Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it.

·      Isaiah 45:18 For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it; (he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): I am the Lord and there is no other.

·      John 1:3 All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

·      Colossians 1:15-17 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him or for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

·      Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

But scientists didn’t start abandoning the idea of an infinitely existing steady state model of the universe until the 20th Century. The Big Bang theory of a finite beginning of the universe was coined by the physicist Sir Fred Hoyle in a 1949 BBC interview. Eric Metaxas in his 2016 book Miracles in his chapter 5 titled The Miracle of the Universe says on page 48…”the Big Bang—the primal ka-boom that created the hundreds of billions of galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars and planets—was a dramatically different kind of explosion that was so extremely and precisely controlled that we cannot really fathom it.”

Both the Old and New Testaments, uniquely among premodern texts, refer to God’s activities “before the beginning of time.”

Proverbs 8:22 – 23

John 1:1-3

1 Cor 2:7

2 Tim 1:9

The Bible Explains the Universe’s Features

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Job, Zechariah and the psalmists declare that the universe is expanding and has continuously expanded from the beginning.

Job 9:8; Ps 104:2; Isa 40:22; 42:5; 44:24; 45:12; 48:13; 51:13; Jer 10:12; 51:15; Zech 12:1.

Jeremiah 33:25 adds the important detail that the laws of physics are fixed.

Paul, in the book of Romans, declares that the entire creation is subject to the law of decay (the second law of thermodynamics).

Psalm 104:2 and Isaiah 40:22 describe the universe’s continuous expansion as the “stretching out” of the heavens like a tent being unfurled.

Job 9.8 declares that God alone is responsible to the universe’s stretching out.

Not until the 20th century did any other book—whether science, theology or philosophy—even hint at the universe’s continuous expansion.