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There Once was a God

by Rich Deem

  1. There once was a God
      who wanted a universe that was reliable and yet controllable.
    So He created one with four fundamental forces that did not vary
      and with quantum mechanics that allowed for uncertainty.
  2. There once was a God
      who wanted to spend all of His time in that universe.
    So He created that universe in another dimension of time.
  3. There once was a God
      who wanted that universe to contain matter.
    So He created that universe with enough particles to produce 100 billion trillion stars.
  4. There once was a God
      who wanted that universe to contain energy.
    So He annihilated 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 particles in an instant.
  5. There once was a God
      who wanted that universe to be hot and cold, light and dark.
    So He spread out that universe 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms wide.
  6. There once was a God
      who wanted to create a warm place between the hot and cold.
    So He blew up several generations of stars.
  7. There once was a God
      who loved the color blue.
    So He created the Earth.
  8. There once was a God
      who loved so much that He wanted to share that love.
    So He created you.
  9. There once was a god
      who watched as His child rebelled.
    So I died.
  10. There once was a God
      who loved me still.
    So He died.
  11. There once was a God
      who brought me back from the pit of death.
    So I was raised to newness of life.
  12. There once was a God
      who wants to be called "Daddy"
    So He promises to be with me always.

References:

  1.  The four forces:
    1. Gravity
    2. Strong nuclear force
    3. Weak nuclear force
    4. Electromagnetic force
     Bang.
  2. The time dimension of our universe began at the moment of the Big Bang. Time was created:
    Penrose, R. 1966. An analysis of the structure of space-time. Adams Prize Essay, Cambridge University.
    Hawking, S.W. 1966. Singularities and the Geometry of space-time. Adams Prize Essay, Cambridge University.
    Hawking, S.W. and G.F.R. Ellis. 1968. The cosmic black-body radiation and the existence of singularities in our universe. Astrophysical Journal 152: 25-36.
    Hawking, S.W. and R. Penrose. 1970. The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: 529-548.
    See The Extradimensional Nature of God
  3. Scientists are amazed that the universe contains matter at all. Nearly all possible universes created by random chance would contain no matter or would have ended long before now. The amount of matter is critical. If the amount of matter in the universe were 10% of what it is, the universe would be composed solely of hydrogen for its entire history. If it were only 1 part in 1059 more massive than it is, then the universe would have ended soon after it began. See Evidence for the Fine Tuning of the Universe
  4. The universe was originally filled with quarks and antiquarks, which combined to annihilate each other to form the 2.7ēK background radiation temperature of the universe. Quarks were in excess of antiquarks by a ratio of 1,000,000,001 to 1,000,000,000. The remaining quarks made up all the matter that exists in the universe. See The Big Bang.
  5. The universe is expanding from its creation and is now ~15 billion light years across. At its creation, the universe was nearly infinitely hot. In its infancy, the universe was 2 miles in diameter, it was over 1 trillion degrees Kelvin. See The Big Bang.
  6. Rocky planets are only possible when large stars explode as supernovae. The Big Bang produced only hydrogen, helium, and lithium. All other heavy elements (that make up planets) are the ashes of exploded stars. Supernovae must not explode near life-containing planets once life has begun or that life would be wiped out. See Evidence for the Fine Tuning of the Universe
  7. The Earth is a beautiful blue-colored planet. For an awesome picture, see The Heavens Declare the Glory of God.
  8. The love of God can be seen from the design of the universe and especially our planet. For the complete tour, see From the Beginning to Man: How God declares His love to us.
  9. That was me. Ignoring God. Doing my own thing. Living apart from His will for my life. I was spiritually dead.
    "Do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God." (Romans 6:13).
    But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), (Ephesians 2:4-5)
  10. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)
  11. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4)
    But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter. (Romans 7:6)
  12. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" (Galatians 4:6) "Abba" is a Greek word best translated "daddy"
    ...And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (Matthew 28:20)
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