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Recently I’ve been thinking about LIGHT and ETERNITY, SPACE-TIME, Albert Einstein’s theories of general and special relativity. And the BIBLE — and GOD. While not a science book, everything the Bible has to say scientifically — is true. God authored the Bible, and God does not lie.
Let’s take light. God did. Genesis 1 says He first created the heavens and the earth. Perhaps that means space-time and placed the earth in it. Then He commanded light to be, and light was. And light was — that means instantly. From earth we measure light at a constant 186,282 miles per second. Nothing can exceed the speed of light, even light. If you were moving at nearly the speed of light and turned on a flashlight in the direction you’re heading, the light from the flashlight would still be measured at 186,282 miles per second.
Back to Genesis 1. In verses :14-17 God placed the sun, planets, moons into the great expanse. And I love how simply Genesis 1:16 states, “He made the stars also.”
The James Webb space telescope is finding hundreds of billions of galaxies beyond what we could measure before. Stars beyond our ability to count, but God even calls them out by name. Scientists claim the far distant galaxies are over 13 billion light years away, and claim therefore the earth and this universe cannot be a mere 6,000 years old. A slam dunk, right? Not so fast….
Perhaps you have seen science fiction movies where space travelers go far away at near the speed of light and return to earth a short time later by their clocks, to find the earth has aged decades, even millennia. The movies are relating a true, proven phenomenon. As an object’s speed increases toward the speed of light, an external observer will measure that object’s time clock as slowing down, although if a person were on that object they would not be aware of that. Time dilation it’s called. Time slows down as you approach the speed of light. Isn’t that fantastic? There’s something else, called the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, where the apparent length of an object, or distances between objects, shrink as the speed of light is approached. The foot long ruler in the spaceman’s hand still measures a foot by him, but an external observer finds it shorter.
What’s this got to do with far away galaxies? Their light, moving at the ACTUAL speed of light, is getting to their destinations, planet earth in this case, INSTANTLY, for there is NO TIME and NO DISTANCE at the speed of light. This agrees with Genesis 1:15 where God placed bodies in the heavenlies to serve as lights in the expanse of the heavens — to give light on the earth; AND IT WAS SO says verse :17. Distant starlight reached earth instantly, not in billions of years.
We believers in Jesus are children of the light. One day He will catch us up to be with Him. Snatched away. How long will it take? The speed of light: instantly, no time at all. One moment we are here, the next we are with God. We dwell in the light, a different place from any place in space and time. Our mortal bodies put on immortality as we fully become citizens of heaven, of eternity, eternally!
Think of it, living at the speed of light, with no time, no aging, seeing Him just as He is. WOW – at that moment, truly, we’ll have fully COME ALIVE!
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