Verse of the Day 3/28

 

John 1:3  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.  New King James Version (NKJV)

 

Every once in a while a once popular television series is brought back or revamped.  I recently heard that "Cosmos" was coming back.  It was made popular by Carl Sagan and most of us can probably recall his standard line "the cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be".  A catchy phrase and many fell prey to the teachings of the series and since that time have felt that science and Christianity were and are and ever will be diametrically opposed.

 

The Bible, in Genesis 1:1 starts off with "in the beginning God".  In today's passage John starts out by saying "in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God."  John's writing goes on to tell us that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, or as The Message puts it "He moved into the neighborhood".  The Bible teaches that the Trinity was there at the beginning with the Spirit hovering over the waters.  John tells us that all things are through Him and without Him nothing was made.  Without God there would be no cosmos.

 

Even Sagan's famous saying is not new.  I woke up this morning with one of my favorite old hymns "Holy, Holy, Holy" o my mind, it states in the second stanza " which wert, and art, and ever more shall be".  He was saying that God is and was and always will be God and He will be Holy, set apart from His creation. 

 

We should not be afraid of science, science and the Bible are not diametrically opposed.  John Lennox writes,   "What divides us is not science, we are both committed to science, but our worldviews. No one wants to base their life on a delusion, but which is a delusion? Christianity or atheism?" God may have started things off with a big bang, but regardless of how he started it, He did it together with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  We can stand in awe of it and stand in wonder of who this God in three Persons, this blessed Trinity is.

 

Often times science has no explanation of things.  If you are curious about Christianity and Science I'd recommend "The Truth Project" a video series put out some years ago by Focus on the Family.  It does a wonderful job of showing the hand of God in His creation and points to many things that science cannot answer, at least without God.

 

In Christ,
Mike

 

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Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace  NIV

John 1:1-5

The Message (MSG)

The Life-Light

^1-2 The Word was first,
the Word present to God,
    God present to the Word.
The Word was God,
    in readiness for God from day one.

^3-5 Everything was created through him;
    nothing—not one thing!—
    came into being without him.
What came into existence was Life,
    and the Life was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
    the darkness couldn't put it out.