A Different Perspective

Chapter 1
The Creation

One of the biggest mysteries that a wide variety of people debate is the creation of the universe. There are a plethora of theories and ideas, but there are two really well known theories that stick out the most. One theory comes from science with the theory known as “The Big Bang Theory”. This theory states that there was once nothingness, then there was a big bang and in an instant we had everything. According to this theory the only life at the time were single cell organisms and as time passed they evolved into more complex forms of life. The other theory is the Christian belief that God created everything by speaking it into existence as told in the Bible in Genesis chapters 1 and 2.
Now with both ideas there are some things that give people a hard time believing that it’s actually true. The Big Bang Theory raises some serious questions including: “If there was nothing, then what caused the bang?”, “Why were the only life forms single celled organisms?”, “Where did the bang occur?” and so on. But scientists are still trying to get everything pieced together. For example, in 2012 scientists discovered something they called the “God particle” that added more to the Big Bang theory.
Then there is the Christian belief that raises questions like “Where did God come from?/What made God?”, “Why did God have to rest if He is supposedly all powerful?”, “Why didn’t God just make everything perfectly and without things like evil?” and so on. Like with the scientists and the Big Bang Theory, Christians don’t have all the pieces and can’t easily answer all the questions thrown their way with the information they have.
These are all really good questions, but the hardest part with trying to figure out how everything came into existence is that we humans weren’t around to witness it. In trying to find answers with a small amount of information, we tend to miss a few things. It also doesn’t help that we compare theories and try to determine which one is “correct”. Instead of looking at them separately, why not look at them together? Why does it have to be that one is right and one is wrong, can’t they both be right? For some people, when they compare the differences they forget about the similarities. Then from there they tend to go with the one they feel is the easiest to believe. But rather they both have a lot in common: both suggest that everything originated from one source, both suggest that it was instantaneous, both suggest that humans all originated from the same origin, and in all throughout the Bible when God speaks, it is described as a big boom, like thunder. So what if the big bang in the Big Bang Theory is God speaking everything into existence?