Genesis 1:1-2
In the Beginning
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Psalm 90:4
God is Beyond Time
4 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
Scientists believe that the universe did have a beginning...And in the beginning there was this single event when creation started...Scientists call this the Big Bang Theory and that begins our universe...Out of this nothing came something...Out of nothing came a group of chemicals reacting to one another and then the universe just happened...And from this theory scientists say the universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and the earth is 4.6 billion years old...Charles Darwin thought man might have came from a warm little pond...In his letter to J. D. Hooker it had this quote in it: “It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are present, which could ever have been present...But if (and Oh! what a big if!) we could conceive in some warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, etc., present, that a protein compound was chemically formed ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter would be instantly devoured or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.”...Other scientists believe now we may have came from the warm ocean floor of potassium and salts...
There are people who do not believe in God, because the question what was God before God existed...God has always existed, so there is no time before God...But the question can be ask, what was before the Big Bang that created the universe...What was out there?...Where did this chemical mixture causing the Big Bang come from?...Was there a universe or a planet or planets, were there stars?...If the universe and universes and everything in it just happened, wouldn't there have to be something out there before the universe banged up and just happened?...Wikipedia writes that before the Big Bang happened, the universe was in an extremely hot and dense state and began expanding rapidly...After the initial expansion, the universe cooled down quickly and sufficiently to allow energy to be converted into various subatomic particles, including protons, neutrons, and electrons...
But what caused this extreme heat, and the cooling of the universe, since there were no stars and sun?...Were there subatomic particles, protons, neutrons, and electrons before the Big Bang?...
Scientists now tell us billions of years later there is great beauty in the universe...And there is great design in how the universe works and was Banged together...And maybe what is more interesting is that scientists have found vast amounts of design and patterns in the cells of plants, animals, and man...How did these patterns in the universe and living plants, animals, and mankind get there?...Are they the result of this Big and Infinite Bang?...The odds of a Big Bang happening with the right chemicals coming together (I am not sure where the chemicals came from) and happening are infinitesimal...And the odds that a planet like earth would happen billions of years later are infinitesimal...And that life would evolve out of this whole process are again infinitesimal...And how did all these things get organized and patterned with design?...
In nature we find it organization and design and nature uses the universe in the most efficient of ways...In man we find a mind and body...Man has matter and a conscious...Believers believe we have a soul...Man is a trinity, with a mind, body, and soul...In man we find that he is moral and loves...Man knows he ought to behave with good morals and with correct human rights...Where did these ideas come from?...
Moses wrote Genesis and in the beginning God created the heavens and earth...The Bible and Genesis tells us that the earth is much younger than the Big Bang...Moses also wrote Psalm ninety which gives us a glimpse that God is outside of time...God is not subject to time and space...Now this still makes God a Great Mystery, but it is interesting Moses wrote about these mysterious things thousands of years ago, and it seems, we need Someone, who is an Intelligent Designer and a Moral One to make sense of all that has ever happened...Even before it happened...
There is nothing before God...God made the Big Bang happen if, in fact, a Big Bang did happen...If there was a Big Bang, God is the Big Banger, and the One who made the bang happen...