Two Important Questions Asked and Answered

Question #1: “Where did God come from?”

The basis for this question is rooted in spiritual ignorance, and sometimes godless unbelief.

“Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.” (Isa. 40:28)

The Bible answers the question of the origin of God in ten words: “In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” (Gen. 1:1).

The God of the Bible reveals Himself to be the God who is outside Time + Space + Matter. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the End. It is God who created Time + Space + Matter which are continuums meaning they are “adjacent elements not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct “(Merriam-Webster). Each had to come into existence at the same instance.

If there were Matter but no Space, where would it be put?

If there were Matter and Space but no Time, when would it be put?

The “trinity” of Time, Space, and Matter cannot exist independently.

Time – Past, Present, Future
Space – Length, Width, Height
Matter – Solid, Liquid, Gas

Consider

The idea that the Universe is eternal was abandoned by Albert Eistein during a taxi ride with his friend Edwin Hubble (1889–1953). Hubble’s observations of galaxies showed that they were moving away from us, leading to the conclusion that the universe is expanding. This expansion implied that the universe must have originated from a singular point. It was a revolutionary concept to Eistein who favored a static universe. While Eistein remained agnostic, He understood that “God does not play dice.”

“Einstein favored a deterministic view, believing that every event has a cause, contrasting with the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics that suggests events can occur randomly” (AI). Such a view becomes philosophically problematic for some when Free Will, Causality, and the Nature of Reality are discussed. However, for a conservative Christian, a universe governed by God and predictable Law is more consistent with Biblical revelation and known science than a universe ruled by chance.

For further study on this topic, see Not a Chance: God, Science, and the Revolt against Reason by R. C. Sproul and Keith Mathison. In that book, they write: “Despite claiming unbelief in God or any higher power that may have designed or created the world and all that is in it, modern scientists often write and speak of chance as some kind of being or force that can cause things to happen. In one breath they push the evolution agenda and in the next they say that creatures were ‘designed’ with specific traits. Sproul and Mathison call the scientific world to employ logic and clarity in their discourse, to leave the word chance as an abstract concept to describe mathematical possibilities rather than an ontological being that can actually cause change.” Eistein was right. “God does not play dice.”

Question #2: “How can a spiritual force have an impact on a material universe?”

The answer to this question simply requires self-reflection for the body is a material entity and yet it is influenced by various emotions: love, hate, fear, gentleness, and sensuality. The spiritual part of man was also created by God. The Bible says “the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being” (Gen. 2:7). The material part of man is dead without the soul; it is the spirit of life that animates the body.

The conclusion of the matter is set forth in Ecclesiastes 12:1: “Remember now Your Creator.”

The year was 1886. A song was published that was destined to be sung for more than one hundred years in the great Cathedrals of Europe, the many Churches in America, and in private humble homes. From Africa to Antarctica, from the Sahara Desert to the South Pole, the song was to be a source of comfort and blessing to innumerable souls.

The song that touched the world was formed in the heart of a young twenty-five-year-old minister, Reverend Carl Boberg of Monsteras on the southeast cost of Sweden. Though caught in a thunderstorm while returning from a Church meeting, Rev. Boberg prayed and pleaded with God for a song to sing. During his two-mile journey, the Lord honored the desire of his heart for there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding (Job 32:8).

“O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.
When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur
And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;
That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.
Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,
And then proclaim: “My God, how great Thou art!”

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art.
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, How great Thou art!”