Calvin Synod Herald, 2013 (114. évfolyam, 3-12. szám)
2013-05-01 / 5-6. szám
6 CALVIN SYNOD HERALD "All In A Day’s Work" - Big Bang! New Life! Resurrection! Ascension! Science just added another 80 million years to the age of earth - estimated at 13.81 billion years, give or take, since the BIG BANG! The ESA Planck space probe has reached the edge of our solar system, soon to fly beyond the magnetic pull of the Sun. The recent news release said “the universe was smaller than an atom when in a split second it exploded, cooled and expanded faster than the speed of light,” and added “the universe burst from subatomic size to its now observable expanse in a fraction of a second.” There were no scientists there to observe that first subatomic whatever, but Christians know that God was in the beginning forming out of nothing that amazing first creation, and within it the very DNA of the universe, the unchanged laws that still govern the heavens and earth. All our science depends upon their constancy, so we can ascertain the age of fossils or conduct experiments today. We know, because “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” - revealed to us in the inspiration and development of the Scriptures - all in a day’s work for God. The miracle of new life Another scientific work, which can be viewed on YouTube*, is a marvelous visualization of the beginning of a new human life from the moment of conception to birth, showing the absolutely miraculous process involved. It portrays the amazing speed after union of the sperm and ovum of the multitude of divisions in mere moments, that at just five weeks one million cells are developed every second, remarkably organized according to the many functions - without mistakes - in each complex single system, such as sixty miles of vessels carrying nutrition and waste. The initial cell divisions happen so fast that, if continued at that pace to birth, the baby would weigh one and a half tons. Alexander Tsiaras: Associate Professor of Medicine Chief of Scientific Visualization - Yale University www.voutube.com/watch_popup?v=fKvliuk “Conception to birth - visualized” The original DNA determined at conception the whole process which would manifest itself in the new life’s unfolding bodily form for years to come, determining color of skin, eyes, hair and the process of aging decades down the road. In the DNA also was the immediate impact upon the baby’s mother, preparing her immunological and cardio-vascular system to carry her child and prepare her for birth and postpartum nurture. Each human life, almost like the universe, begins at one imperceptible moment, and God is there. “Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me when as yet there were none of them.” All in a day’s work for God. Christ has been raised This is God’s unchanging universe! The miracle of new life is ruled by God’s unchanging formula. Now, can we dare to think that the wise God who has this power of creation and bringing forth new life cannot by that same awesome power raise up his Son from the dead? Why not? It is his universe and his rules! “But in fact, Christ been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.” God’s awesome power of resurrection was not exercised for the sake of Jesus, the Firstborn of the New Creation, but for all who believe in him and are the Newborn who will live with Christ in his Kingdom. “Jesus lives, and so shall I... He shall raise me with the just: Jesus is my hope and trust.” There’s nothing we can do to make it possible, but God has done it all, even raising us from the dead. All in a day's work for God. I tell you heavenly things Jesus said, “If I have told you earthly thing and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?” With him we move from the things we see to the things that they point to of the unseen. Plainly speaking, there is a divine purpose to all this. Job asks, “Your hands fashioned me, and now do you turn around and destroy me? Remember that you have made me of clay, and will you turn me to dust again?” As no woman goes through pregnancy for nothing, but to bring her baby to new life and to enjoy, God hasn’t made his creation for nothing. God hasn’t brought forth new life and established his Covenant, sent his Son and raised him from the dead, instituted his Church and called us his sons and daughters for nothing. In Isaiah we read, “Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she was delivered of a son. Who has heard such a thing? .... Shall I bring to the birth and not cause to bring forth? says the Lord; shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb, says your God?” No, the birth comes after the labor and pain of childbirth in that order, of course. So too, God who has created all things and all people didn’t do it without reason. This earth is the womb of physical life and the Church of spiritual life, birth and new birth, by which God is bringing forth new life to ascend like Jesus and live with him forever to be in his eternal kingdom, and to be his precious family enjoying everlasting life. It's in our DNA, by his divine plan - all in a day's work for God. “God of the earth, the sky, the sea, Maker of all above, below, Creation lives and moves in Thee, Thy present life through all doth flow. But higher far, andfar more clear, Thee in man s spirit we behold; Thine image and Thyself are there, The indwelling God, proclaimed of old. Rev. Albert W. Kovács
