Archive for December, 2009

I have a theory about our known universe. Most people believe that the universe is expanding outward, but I believe that God created the universe in an instant and the light has traveled from all the known universe to us giving us a globe image of what exists in the universe. As time passes we see more of what God created because the light has traveled from it’s origin to us, so as the Earth ages we see more of what God created out to infinity. It’s not that nothing exists beyond what we have seen, but the light has not yet reached us, so we just haven’t seen it yet.

Consider this: If we know so little about so little, why do we strive so hard to understand things beyond our ability to understand. Why not instead accept that it is beyond our ability to grasp. Paul says of Jesus in Philippians 2:5-8 that Jesus becoming a human gave up his ability to understand in order to show us how to live without understanding. We can only observe and react to what we observe. Our small little brains do not have the capacity to comprehend the vastness of the universe, we are barely beginning to understand our own bodies, still don’t know how many species of fish live in our own oceans, still don’t know how to predict the weather accurately; how small and insignificant we really are! “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?” Psalm 8:3,4

We don’t have the mental capacity to even comprehend all of the books humans have written, all of the paintings and sculptures and architectural creations made by humans, all of the music created by humans. Yet we strive to explain the unexplainable. God cannot be explained any more than the universe can be, he/she/it should always be explained as “I AM” Exodus 3. God has as many faces and descriptions and names as the number of humans who have tried to comprehend. In the end if you want to know then search for understanding and wisdom, but don’t criticize people who do not wish to understand. Ignorance is a wisdom of it’s own. Innocence is lost with knowledge. Striving to understand is like eating the forbidden fruit, the more we understand the more arrogant we become and the less faithful and innocent our hearts.

The Known Universe — By the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot: