THE ORIGIN OF EVERYTHING EXCELLENT

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1 NAS).

One thing that I can never wrap my mind around is the supreme self-existing, nothing-other-than-HIM-before-time-ever-was-existence of God. I can’t grasp the profundity that before anything (time, matter, light, the universe), there was GOD. Just GOD. JUST GOD. Doesn’t that just blow your mind? When I first tried to ponder the fact of an always existing God, my mind kept trying to anchor Him back to His own starting point…but there isn’t one! He has no beginning, he has no end. Taken from “The Sovereignty of God”, Arthur Pink states:

“What do you mean ‘it just happened'”? Didn’t we discuss cause and effect?”

“In the great expanse of eternity…the universe was unborn and creation existed only in the mind of the great Creator…God dwelt alone. There were no angels to hymn God’s praises, no creatures to occupy His notice, no rebels to be brought into subjection. The great God was all alone amid the awful silence of His own vast universe”. (p. 28)

The pre-existence of God as Creator of the Universe, as the beginning of everything, just draws me to greater awe and humility as it underscores how incredibly great He really is.

Science confirms creation by its own stated and observable laws of nature. There are several, but we’ll just look at one today, the law of Cause and Effect.

This law states that for every effect there is a cause. In other words, simple and straightforward, things don’t happen without something making them happen.

Here’s an illustration of an everyday object such as a piece of paper. We can trace its existence from the store, to the distributor, to the warehouse, back to the truck that brought it from the factory, which got the wood from a pine tree, which came from a seed, all the way back to the first pine tree.

Likewise, we can trace anything, living or non-living back to the very first event that brought it into being.

In their website post “Everything has a Cause” the Institute of Creation further discusses:

“A scientific experiment specifically tries to relate effects to causes…The very basis of the highly reputed “scientific method” is this very law of causality…Science in the modern sense would be altogether impossible if cause and effect should cease.”

It is ironic that the very premise of science is evaded by Charles Darwin, author of Origin of Species, (the book that introduced the scientific theory of evolution). Followers never really define what may have been the first cause of anything. They never have a specific explanation, either describing a “big bang” or “energy” that has an effect but no cause.

To that I must question: What brought about the “big bang”? What stirred the heavens to produce energy?

Further, the law of cause and effect makes an important statement, that the cause is always greater than the effect.

For example, humans have creativity. So whatever is the cause of humanity must have greater creativity. Thus whatever cause something, must have within itself a greater amount or degree of the effect.

The Institute concludes:

Applying the principles of cause and effect, it is clear that scientific logic indicates that the Cause for the universe in which we live must trace back to an infinite First Cause of all things. Random motion or primeval particles cannot produce intelligent thought, nor can inert molecules generate spiritual worship.

The First Cause of limitless space must be infinite.
The First Cause of endless time must be eternal.
The First Cause of boundless energy must be omnipotent.
The First Cause of universal interrelationships must be omnipresent.
The First Cause of infinite complexity must be omniscient.
The First Cause of spiritual values must be spiritual.
The First Cause of human responsibility must be volitional.
The First Cause of human integrity must be truthful.
The First Cause of human love must be loving.
The First Cause of life must be living.

We would conclude from the law of cause-and-effect that the First Cause of all things must be an infinite, eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, spiritual, volitional, truthful, loving, living Being!1