If nothing existed outside of you, and it was within your power to create something, would you? Scientifically speaking, as I said in a post in my July 2018 archives called “Nothing,” absolutely nothing should exist; not one thing and not one thought. If you were to exist, which you do by the way, would you choose to create a world around you? Do we not each attempt that very thing?
Thinking on a strange dream that I experienced as a boy has inspired these questions. I dreamed that I was floating happily along inside an empty egg-like structure. After awhile I thought that I would like a blue sky above me, and as soon as that thought came to me, the sky was there. I went on to think of an earth under me with beautiful plants, and they appeared. It was a very pleasant dream, but I awoke before any thought of living beings came to my mind.
Would you give life to something if you could? Would you create robots or a world of slaves to serve you? Some people would. You could create beings without giving them freedom of will, so that they would obey without giving it a thought. Would you give them freedom to think for themselves, even if this meant that they could come to doubt you? Maybe they would rather that you served them. One thought leads to another doesn’t it?
Would you warn your creations of the danger of a lack of faith in you concerning this tree of knowledge? Would you create copies of yourself but with distinct attributes? You might, but would you form a being equal to yourself with an entirely separate personality? You probably would not go quite that far. Wouldn’t it be better to carefully limit the power of such a being? Such a creature might choose to enslave you.
If you created individual living beings, would you expect them to treat each other fairly? Would it not concern you if you had to enforce these issues? Wouldn’t you rather that your “children” love one another of their own freewill? Even if some of them were greater in power than others, would you not want respect and equality to be the standard? Would you desire them to be guided by your word and your thought? For the sake of convenience, let’s call these children man, or mankind. Would you expect “man” to exhibit qualities of mercy and forgiveness?
By answering these questions honestly, we can easily understand why trust in the creator would be crucial for paradise and eternal life. Is such trust in God justified? Look back upon the cross, and look into the empty tomb; look into the ancient Old Testament prophecies foretelling these things and the New Testament history of their fulfillment; the answer is yes, Jesus (“Yes-hua” in the Hebrew Language). Everything that God made was good (Genesis 1:31). Nothing could have been created any more perfectly than God made it.
It is our abuse of God-given freedom of will that has brought about the deterioration and downfall of our world. But God has a plan that could save us all if we would agree to it. God’s plan called for him to come to Earth, become one of us submitting even to the suffering and injustice of the cross. Jesus said (John 14:1-9), “He that has seen me has seen the Father.” If we want to understand what God is like, we need to study Jesus. On that cross, he was reaching farther than from the earth to Heaven. He reached from Heaven all the way down to the depths of our hearts.
If we could actually observe God observing us, that would greatly inhibit our freedom of will. That is exactly why we don’t see God. Even our beliefs about God can moderate our behavior, but that is a little different thing because we have choices concerning the things we desire to believe. Long ago in the garden of Eden, our ancestors chose to trust our own interpretation of morality and “scientific” knowledge, rather than God’s revelation concerning his creation. That often leaves us uncomfortable within ourselves over our pitiful choices.
Is it not very strange to be alive? If we ask the right questions, sometimes they will lead us to the correct answer. According to the logic of science, neither energy nor matter should arise out of nowhere and nothing. Science cannot explain how anything existed to begin with, nor can they explain how all of the observable universe came from nothing.
Nothing would exist without God. We exist because God desired it to be so. We can live forever because of that very same being. It’s the time of the year when we celebrate the resurrection. Jesus is the bright and morning star (Revelation 22:16, “aster” in the Greek New Testament). Jesus is the star of Easter, believe in him, and live forever.
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