The Revealing Science of God © 2001 The Church of Yahweh

PART 1: INTRODUCTION

From the dawn of time, whenever that was, and the dawn of human consciousness, whenever that was, mankind has looked around in wonder and has asked questions. Why is the sky blue? Where is the world? Why do birds fly? What is grass made out of? What happens after I die? How far away are the stars? Is there a God?

These questions have helped create the human race. All of human knowledge, all of human enterprise can be seen as one form or another of attempting to define and answer questions. What can I do to have a little more leisure time? How can we live in peace with our brothers? Is there anything I can do to lead a happier life?

The One Really Big Question

The highest form of human thought is in the realm of religion. And as it pertains to religion there are really only six questions. Those six questions are inside of the one really big question.

The one really big question is, "How is it possible that anything exists at all?" This is the ultimate question, and all other questions are derivative from it. All other questions are very small subsets of this very, very big question.

And that very big question is expressed in different ways. "Why wasn't the universe forever just a big black nothingness?" "Where did God come from?" "If there is no God then how did the universe get here?" "If we come up with a scientific theory that says that it all came from a 'big bang', then where did all the stuff come from to be able to 'bang'?"

The fact that anything exists at all anywhere in any way, shape or form is the ultimate cosmological, ontological mystery. It is the great unknown. It is the fundamental rubric of all human thought.

And in the attempt to answer that one really big question we have six smaller questions:

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

How? and

Why?

It's almost like we have a murder mystery. We've arrived upon the crime scene and, lo and behold, there is a dead body. In our investigation there are only six questions we have to answer. Who did it? Exactly what did they do, and, what did they use to do it? When did they do that? Where did it take place? How was it done? And, why?

Opportunity and motive. When we come to the really big question, the really big question is like our dead body in the murder mystery. And in order to be able to approach the really big question we have to answer these 6 questions.

The 6 Domains of Human Thought

These 6 questions have become all different branches of human knowledge.

When we ask who, we are asking the question of theology. Tell me about this God, what are His attributes? Does He think? Does He feel? Does He get personally involved with us? Perhaps there is no "He", only an impersonal, mindless force.

When we ask what, this is the field of science. What is in this universe? What's it made out of? Tell me about the atoms and electrons and photons. What is gravity, after all?

When we ask when, we are contemplating in part cosmology, in part astronomy and a part paleontology. How old it the Earth? How old is our sun? How old is the universe? How old am I? Am I just a body? Or, has perhaps my soul, whatever that might be, been here a lot longer and got somehow stuck inside of my body?

When we ask where, we are asking the questions of astronomy and metaphysics. Is the Earth the center of the universe? Where is our sun in relation to the other suns? And if you add up all of the suns and all of the galaxies, where are they? Does the universe go on and on and on forever? Does it stop? If it stops, what's on the other side of it? Where is the whole thing located? And, where is it in relationship to God? Is it apart from God? Is it inside of God? If it's inside of God, then how does it relate to God?

Fifth, we ask how? How was the universe born? Was there a Big Bang? Did God create? How did this all come about? This is an issue of metaphysics and theology and part mysticism. The science of the Kabbalah for example, attempts to explain step by step exactly how God made the world. And exactly how God is related to the world.

Sixth, we come to the most interesting question of all. If we adopt a theistic view, meaning that there is a God and he/she is a person, why would He do this? Why did God make this world? Why does God allow there to be suffering? Why does God permit human beings to do the horrible things that they do? Why does God bless some and curse others? This is a question of the highest philosophy. This is a question of religion. It comes down to the very core of the purpose of life: why am I alive? What is the highest I can attain?

The Bible is Silent

These six questions, ladies and gentlemen, lie outside of the realm of the Bible! The Bible does not answer any of them! Not completely. Of the six questions the Bible attempts to do the best job on the question of "who." Who this God is and some of his nature and attributes.

But the other five are left to be a mystery. Open up a Bible if you have one, and you will read in any Bible the very first verse. It is so familiar to western civilization that even the youngest school children have it memorized. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth." That's all it says. But what it does not say speaks volumes. It does not tell us who this God is. And what the Bible will reveal to us during the course of it's pages is ways in which we can relate to this person because of what he has done to, with and for us.

But before God made the world, what was He? Who was He? The Bible does not answer that question.

Then we ask "what?" Well, the Bible will give us only very broad brush strokes as to what the world is. Because Genesis describes God creating stars and oceans and fish and birds. But the Bible is very quiet as to the scientific, mathematical, astronomical and atomistic nature of this world. The Bible has left it to mankind to search out the answers to the "what" of existence.

The "when" is never answered. We are told "in the beginning" God created the heavens and the Earth. But we do not know when that was. Some people go through a laborious process counting up the ages of the Saints and know generations and come up with a calculation that indicates that "in the beginning" was about 6,000 years ago. But the Bible doesn't tell us that. Perhaps it was billions of years ago.

"Where", the Bible again is silent. The way in which the world is created, within God, or outside of God, or as a part of God, or with God's being, the Bible is very quiet. So where we are in the universe is a mystery. It is such a mystery according to the Bible that the Renaissance astronomers who indicated that the Earth was not the center of the universe were ostracized by the Ecclesiastical authorities for blasphemy. The Bible does not do a very good job of telling us where we are.

And where was God before He made the world? Where is He now? This is a very interesting question, and again the Bible is silent.

How did God make the world? The Bible gives us no clue what so ever. The Bible indicates that God said, "Let there be light" and the saying made it so. Well, how did that work?!?? I can say "let there be pizza," and I don't see any pizza.

So, while the Bible indicates that it was through an act of speaking, the Bible does not indicate to us at all how God actually created this world.

And finally, most mysteriously of all, the Bible gives us not one clue as to why God would do such a thing. Was it because He was bored? Was it because He wanted to have some little creatures down here to torture? Was it because He is an egocentric maniac, and wanted to force us all to sit around and worship Him? Meanwhile, preparing ghastly and unspeakable tortures for those who refuse to do so? The Bible does not tell us why.

And those theologians who have attempted to say, "Well it was obvious that God wanted to have fellowship with Adam and Eve." don't tell us why that would be of any interest to God. And do not tell us why he would care.

So, as we look to the first verse in Genesis, we have the following results:

Who? God.

What? Created.

When? In the beginning.

Where? Ah, the heavens and the Earth.

How? He said it and it was done.

Why? Because he's God.

Does Anyone Really Care?

Perhaps you are satisfied with these answers. It is all too obvious that the overwhelming majority of mankind is entirely satisfied with these answers, or with no answers at all. The human race is at this point at a stage of development where we are enamored of technological inventions. We are in love with our machines, and are frankly much more interested in a warm place to live and a cold beer, then we are in understanding the Who, What, When, Where, How and Why of existence.

And even those who do persue a knowledge of God, or face religion, for the most part approach it for two reasons. Number one, to make sure that the big guy upstairs is listening to them so that if they get sick or have a problem the big answer man in the sky will take care of them. And, number two, once they die they want to know what the magical formulas are that they have to say in order to be able to make sure that they won't go to the really, really bad place.

And, for countless millions of people that is the sum total of their religion. Morality takes a back seat and the higher questions, the six questions inside of the one really big question, are never approached.

Therefore it is obvious to me by the very nature of this writing that I have a somewhat limited audience and will probably not wind up at the top of anybody's best seller list. Be that as it may, I feel compelled to proceed with this project.

The creator of the universe has given us, and wants to give us, much better answers to the really big question and to the six minor questions. That is the purpose of this writing.

The Revealing Science of God is to explain the best I can, to anyone who might be interested, the totality of the universe:

Who God is,

What he has done,

When this occurred,

Where we are,

How the creation was affected, and

Why it was done.

Having explored these six we will then turn to the ultimate question because we will then have much data to enable us to understand.

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