Either the universe came out of nothing all by itself,

or the universe was created by something self-existent and eternal.

Your theory of the origin of the cosmos

screams for a self-existent eternal being.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

This is the most fundamental assertion of historic Christianity, and it is the single most bombarded

target by secular philosophy and by neo-paganism in our day. Because every pagan

knows that if you can get rid of creation, you're rid of God, and if you're rid of God,

you can live however you want. And so everything that divides the Christian from the pagan is at stake in that opening

assertion of the Old Testament.

Now let's think about it just for a second.

In the beginning, now the first thing is being said here is that the heavens and the earth,

the entire

universe, as we know it, had a beginning.

There was a time when they created universe was not.

I mentioned before a few years ago at a conference that I heard the famous astrophysicist

Jastro being interviewed when the Hubble spacecraft was sent aloft and he was on the radio

and he said 15 to 17 billion years ago the universe exploded into being.

I almost drove my car off the road.

The universe exploded into being.

What did it explode out of?

Non-being?

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