Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Attributes of God - God is Self Existent
There is one characteristic that every single thing in the entire universe shares. Whether creature or thing, inanimate object or intelligent organism, every speck of matter in this universe was created by something. Something caused everything in the universe to come into existence. God, however was not. No one and nothing caused God to come into being; He simply is. Past, present, future, God is.
How can this be? How can anything not have an origin? Even the universe itself must have had an origin. God exists outside of space and time, outside of the universe in a timeless manner that our limited human minds can barely conceive of, much less even begin to comprehend.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Hebrews 13:8
God is unchanging. He exists yesterday today and forever concurrently. This explains how the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross took the penalty for all the sin in the world, from the day of creation until the day that the old heaven and the old earth pass away. This God who created the entire universe invites us to share in His manner of existence after a comparatively infinitesimal time spent in this life, for the cost of nothing more than our acknowledgment of His position of authority over the entire universe and our acceptance of forgiveness of our sins.
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Kenny, have you ever watched "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist"? Dr. Frank Turek talks along these lines and more, very interesting! He, along with a few other physicists, has got me interested in physics especially astro physics. Their narratives on how the universe came into being coincide with Genesis (their claim not mine...a few of them are not Christians but still had to admit their conclusions) and the probability factors of such, make you think as well as understand that science is starting to prove the Bible right.
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