I don’t believe that the Big Bang was the “beginning.” I could start by citing a major Bible reference:
In Genesis 1:2-5
(ESV)
2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Well…this proves that there was SOMETHING before nothing. What exactly was that something? It was God. He is eternal. Thus, we are eternal also. If we are made in “his likeness & image,” as the Holy Scripture states.
I will leave the rest to the famous world renowned physicists, click right here: World Science Festival: Was the Big Bang the Beginning? or on the original link – https://youtu.be/MO3w2D3uDTw?si=gP93A0I4bPMGJYHo
Some religions believe that the universe came into existence by some “one time” event and that it will “end” with the apocalypse.
But much of the universe is “cyclical,” says NY Times bestselling author, professor, and physicist, Brian Greene.
The Big Bang could have lead to recreations that expand “new” universes and cycles that repeat over and over.
We are a younger planet. Our presence here is not a mistake. There are reasons why we should not exist; for example, a total annihilation should have occurred at the very beginning, but by some small chance – we have arrived.
The universe is infinite. This means that energy is eternal. The universe doesn’t a have a beginning,
It seems we’ve figured out the part about He was, IS, and ALWAYS will be! God is not the universe! But he made it! Now, physicists believe there are “universes” and that once this one “ends” there will be a new…and there have been, again, and again.
In the Book of Revelations, St. John says, “I saw a new Jerusalem” (heaven) coming out of the sky (a new city), and he also states he saw a “new earth.” St. John effortlessly talks about new creations and beginnings.
New worlds he saw in these visions that God gave him.
We like to think of the world as in a story form as having a beginning, middle, and end. But that is not the way it has to be.
“How can mindless, thoughtless, particles, come together in a configuration that somehow yields the aftersensation of thought, feeling, and emotion – how can this be ‘generated’ if we don’t have any intrinsic version of these qualities to begin with?” Says Brian Greene. Well, they can’t.
Some say that “particles” cannot come to those thoughts and feelings on their own and that there has to be some supreme super intelligence in charge.
The word ‘Altruism’ will help you understand. Altruism “is the principle and practice of concern for the well-being and/or happiness of other humans or animals.” Some have argued with atheists, ‘if there is no God,’ then why do we possess these feelings of altruism? Atheists have been baffled by that question.
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