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In many respects, the Bible stands as an example of existentialism. That is, nothing exists or existed unless it was mentioned in the Bible.
Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” It is understood to mean He created not just the earth but the whole universe. Could He have created another universe before ours? The Bible doesn’t say. Could another universe have existed before ours? No mention of it in the Bible.
In a sense, there’s an indirect relationship between faith and existentialism. To a certain extent, faith says this is what it is, and in terms of existentialism, nothing exists except what the Bible says exists. Does our faith allow us to ask if another universe may have existed before ours, even though there’s no mention of it in the Bible?
Several things come to mind. The Bible mentions that Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Good and Evil. it expanded their knowledge beyond what God first endows them with. They may have lost their immortality for doing so, but God doesn’t kill them, like he did to Uzzah for touching the oxen carrying the ark in 1 Chronicles 13:9-10. And so, man’s quest for knowledge remains untouched, even among those who are mentioned in the Bible. Even among Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and God’s Chosen. Even among those in the New Testament who gave us a graduated perspective of God, relative to the elementary doctrine of Jesus.
So man’s curiosity of the physical world has fairly recently led man to believe that in terms of quantum theory, a universe existed before ours. Quantum theory involves the behavior of particles too small to be seen with the naked eye, and it explains that particles can also act as part or a wave. To be sure, if God can be said to have created quantum theory, He did so through man via the works He endowed man with. Did God create the particles? Perhaps in a beginning, but perhaps, like succeeding generations that were created after man, many of the particles could have been created through other particles.
In studying quantum theory, an idea emerged that due to the nature of the alleged behavior of these particles, there exists the possibility that our universe was born out of one that existed before. It is believed in terms of quantum theory that the former universe imploded, and all the elements large and small from it exploded out, creating the universe as we know it, via the Big Bang phase.
What caused the implosion? Those of us who believe in God would believe He caused it, since He created our universe, He must’ve done something to bring our universe about, hence the implosion of the former one. And perhaps, like with our universe, He ruled that one. Did He decide to destroy that one and start over? The Bible doesn’t say.
The Bible does perhaps infer, via Isaiah 34:4 and Revelation 6:14, that at some point in the future, our universe will roll up like a scroll. Does that mean that God might create another universe after ours passes away? To inject an analogy, what do we do with a book once we’ve finished reading it? We put it down and start with another one if we like to read. In a sense, God put down a former universe, if it existed, rolling it back up into a scroll, and began again with ours. The reason that our universe may roll up like a scroll may not only have to do with good and evil, it may also have to do with God’s simply finishing one universe and starting another one, like an artist who is dissatisfied with what he created so he starts over.
Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” It is understood to mean He created not just the earth but the whole universe. Could He have created another universe before ours? The Bible doesn’t say. Could another universe have existed before ours? No mention of it in the Bible.
In a sense, there’s an indirect relationship between faith and existentialism. To a certain extent, faith says this is what it is, and in terms of existentialism, nothing exists except what the Bible says exists. Does our faith allow us to ask if another universe may have existed before ours, even though there’s no mention of it in the Bible?
Several things come to mind. The Bible mentions that Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Good and Evil. it expanded their knowledge beyond what God first endows them with. They may have lost their immortality for doing so, but God doesn’t kill them, like he did to Uzzah for touching the oxen carrying the ark in 1 Chronicles 13:9-10. And so, man’s quest for knowledge remains untouched, even among those who are mentioned in the Bible. Even among Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and God’s Chosen. Even among those in the New Testament who gave us a graduated perspective of God, relative to the elementary doctrine of Jesus.
So man’s curiosity of the physical world has fairly recently led man to believe that in terms of quantum theory, a universe existed before ours. Quantum theory involves the behavior of particles too small to be seen with the naked eye, and it explains that particles can also act as part or a wave. To be sure, if God can be said to have created quantum theory, He did so through man via the works He endowed man with. Did God create the particles? Perhaps in a beginning, but perhaps, like succeeding generations that were created after man, many of the particles could have been created through other particles.
In studying quantum theory, an idea emerged that due to the nature of the alleged behavior of these particles, there exists the possibility that our universe was born out of one that existed before. It is believed in terms of quantum theory that the former universe imploded, and all the elements large and small from it exploded out, creating the universe as we know it, via the Big Bang phase.
What caused the implosion? Those of us who believe in God would believe He caused it, since He created our universe, He must’ve done something to bring our universe about, hence the implosion of the former one. And perhaps, like with our universe, He ruled that one. Did He decide to destroy that one and start over? The Bible doesn’t say.
The Bible does perhaps infer, via Isaiah 34:4 and Revelation 6:14, that at some point in the future, our universe will roll up like a scroll. Does that mean that God might create another universe after ours passes away? To inject an analogy, what do we do with a book once we’ve finished reading it? We put it down and start with another one if we like to read. In a sense, God put down a former universe, if it existed, rolling it back up into a scroll, and began again with ours. The reason that our universe may roll up like a scroll may not only have to do with good and evil, it may also have to do with God’s simply finishing one universe and starting another one, like an artist who is dissatisfied with what he created so he starts over.
