Introduction
- If you had a stiff-necked child that needed to wake up, what would you say to them? God started with Creation.
- Genesis 1:1 – This was written by Moes for the Israelites – a stubborn people.
- Job 38:1-4
- John 1:1-3
- I John 1:1
The Law of Causality and the Cosmological Argument
- Everything that had a beginning had a cause.
- If something exists, it either always existed, or it had a beginning.
- The physical world could not always have existed.
- Therefore, the physical world had a beginning.
Since the physical world is not eternal, its ultimate cause must be eternal.
- What is the physical world?
- Matter
- Energy
- Time
- Matter, time, energy E=mc^2
- Information
Causality, the physical world, and Isaiah 40:28
- The cause of the physical world must transcend …
- Time
- Matter
- Energy
- Information
- Why Creation matters
- Is it just to know true facts?
- There is more to this world than matter, energy, time, and information.
- Therefore, there must be a cause or source of these things as well.
- What else exists?
- Beauty
- Variety
- Provision
- Good
- Love
- Evil
- Suffering
- The Bible’s account is the best explanation for all that we observe.
Why is Creation THE answer?
- Revelation 22:13, 12
- Isaiah 40
- Isaiah 40:5, 3 – The glory of the Lord to be revealed
- Isaiah 40:6-8 – All flesh is as grass.
- Isaiah 40:27, 29-31 – Provides from His infinite resources to those who wait for Him.
- Job
- God created, God provides, God knows.
- Genesis 1:1
- Exodus 3:13-14 – Who sent Moses? I AM.
- John 1:1
- The man Jesus is the I AM.
- I John 1:1
- Jesus is the source of light and love.
- Colossians 1:17 – In Him all things hold together.
- How great do you have to be to transcend the physical world? The cause must be adequate for the effect. So how big is the effect – holding all things together?
- II Peter 3:10 – One day, all things will dissolve with fervent heat.
- Dissolve: Break of destroy but also untie or loose, like a sandal, a donkey, Lazarus
- II Peter 3:11, 14