Genesis 1:3-4 - And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw ...

And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. (Genesis 1:3-4)

We can see here that the Supreme Being is making an intention, followed by an execution: "Let there be light" is directly followed by and there was light.

Who is God speaking to here?

The use of the word "said" prior to His statement is allegorical. The word "said" is being translated from the Hebrew word אמר ('amar), which means, according to the lexicon, "to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend."

Since there is no audience mentioned other than the reader, we can know that this word אמר ('amar) is speaking more of intention and command rather than making an announcement. In other words, God is not making a big speech to anyone here.

Rather, God is communicating intention. This is followed by the manifestation of His intentions. This verse is communicating God's intention to design and create the physical universe.

This is the Supreme Being, from the spiritual dimension - a dimension where time does not exist. The Supreme Being created time in order to set in motion the physical universe. Notice that God simply had to command light. This indicates that light - which is energy - originates from God. But physical light - energy of the material plane - is infused with time.

The source of this energy emanates from God. This is confirmed by numerous scriptural passages. Therefore, when God created the physical universe, He endowed it with His light.

'God saw that the light was good' indicates His approval. He is willing the creation of the physical universe - then He is approving it. This means He designed the creation.

Why is the light separated from darkness?

What does it mean by God separating the darkness from the light? This can only mean that He put in place the aspect of periodicity, which means the element of time. Separating light from the darkness requires that one segment or period has light while another segment or period has darkness. This means to alternate light with darkness, in effect putting in place the effect of time and rotation.

If we look around us, everything is rotating. We see spiraling galaxies, rotating solar systems and planets that revolve. We also find revolution among atoms and molecules, as electrons revolve around nuclei. These are all aspects of periodicity, and we measure time by these rotations. We also see that our very lives are modeled around periodicity and time. We have day and night, winter and summer, hot and cold and so on. The universe is in balance, based on periodicity - and time.

This periodicity is also expressed by the yin and yang philosophy. The concept is that the universe is completely balanced between the yin and the yang. This balance, of course, requires periodicity and the aspect of time.

Because God emanates light, He could endow the physical universe with light. And because He is complete, He contains both the yin and the yang. This is because God is the Cause of existence.

The laws of the physical universe indicate that everything has a cause and a source. As we investigate the universe we find that every event has a cause. This is the basis of science: To determine the cause of things. And the only reason there are scientists is that the study of finding a cause for so many things has become worthwhile.

Consider, on the other hand, a chaotic universe where things simply happened without cause. Would such a universe prompt us to employ scientists to find the causes of events? Certainly not. We would consistently find that they were wrong about each of their studies, and conclude that it is a waste of time to employ them to study anything. A chaotic world without cause and effect would simply be a waste of time to study.

A chaotic world where things simply happen without cause would also lead to an existence without any consistency.

Yet today, many supposed scientists are proposing that humans and life itself had no original cause. They propose life and the universe were accidental.

If these are accidental, there is no purpose for existence. We are simply the result of a freak accident of nature. Yet this proposal contradicts the very nature of scientific discovery: Finding the cause.

What these supposed scientists are simply admitting is that they do not know what caused the creation of the universe.

What is cause and effect?

If we look around us, we see organization. We see cause and effect. Again, this is why we value science. Because science can observe an event for awhile, and at some point see there was a previous event that is connected in a causal manner. Connecting causal events in this way allows us to understand the causes of things. This allows us to learn.

In other words, true science helps us understand consistency among causes and effects. Science allows us to see that a particular event is consistently caused by something else. Furthermore, if an event is somehow altered, science can help find that other effect that interceded and altered the event. These understandings have provided us with a fundamental axiom of the scientific method: Every effect has an antecedent cause.

Therefore, using science's own fundamental axiom, we have proved that the physical world cannot be accidental. Since every effect is preceded by a cause, this means there is causation. Since there is causation on a consistent basis, the universe is cannot be accidental. It cannot be random.

Actually, the only arena that modern scientists propose pure chaos theory is when they speculate about creation. They propose the world was an accident simply because they do not want to accept a possible cause. They refuse to accept that - even though every other event we observe in the physical universe consistently has a cause - the creation somehow is an exception. This is simply an illogical assumption. It is also unscientific.

Can the senses perceive the Source?

The problem with modern cosmology (the "science" of creation) today is that this community - like any other community dictated by peer-pressure - has a problem with accepting information from a higher source. Cosmologists want to believe that since they haven't observed a Living Cause of the universe with the senses then He must not exist. This dependency upon the senses is called empiricism. This is the third axiom of the scientific method: It states that every conclusion must be based upon observation.

As we look back even over the past few hundred years of science we can see this axiom is deeply flawed. For example, only a few hundred years ago, scientists could not observe microorganisms. They had no idea - until Anton van Leeuwenhoek looked through a microscope and saw what he called "animalcules." These were, of course, microorganisms. Prior to this, there were a few theories of microorganisms, but most of these were heavily criticized by scientists because they hadn't seen them with their own eyes.

This type of error has continued in cosmology today. As we are able to peer at smaller elements of nature - or the universe at greater distances - we continue to make the same mistakes due to the innate faults of our senses and their extensions: Our senses simply do not have the ability to observe everything. We continue to guess about the things we cannot observe right now, and then once we develop the ability to observe them, we discover our error.

Therefore, since our senses and their extensions are flawed, then a scientific axiom that says something cannot be true unless it is observed by our senses or their extensions - is also flawed.

This reality is in fact already admitted among quantum physics and cosmology - which have utilized extensional thinking - speculation - to arrive at principles related to the nature of the universe and its creation. Through these theories, they are already admitting the flawed nature of the third axiom that something must be observed with the senses in order to be true.

Another example of this flawed axiom is the calculation of what is now referred to as "dark matter." Current physics calculations suggest that up to 96 percent of the universe is made of dark matter. The punchline: Scientists don't know what this "dark matter" is made of because it is unobservable.

So if cosmologists don't know what 96 percent of the universe is made of because they cannot perceive it, how could they suggest a speculative hypothesis that there was no Living Creator?

We must accept that our senses and their extensions - be they microscopes, telescopes or space probes - are limited. The senses and their extensions cannot see the entire picture. Thus it is unscientific to completely rely on them. At some point, we must accept a higher Source of information.

What do higher sources tell us?

We can arrive at such a case logically: Since everything we observe has an antecedent cause, then it is logical that the universe - filled with unseen "dark" matter, observable matter, light, energy, and life - must also have a Cause.

Furthermore, it would be logical to assume that such a Cause must have the potential for what is existing. In other words, that Cause must contain light and energy: And because life exists, that Cause must contain life.

What does this indicate? A Living Cause. If something contains life, it means that it is alive. This logically can only mean that the Cause of the physical universe must be alive. We are describing, of course, the Supreme Being: God.

Since a Supreme Being must, on a scientific basis, exist, it is, therefore, necessary to accept Him as a higher source of information - beyond the jurisdiction of the physical senses.

Yes, it is true that most cosmologists have not observed God directly. However, cosmologists also have not observed dark matter: Even though most physicists accept that the universe is made up of mostly dark matter - to the tune of 96 percent.

If they don't know what 96 percent of the universe is made of, why should we accept their ever-changing speculations that the universe was created by strings or the so-called theory of everything? Just because they can put a bunch of mathematical variables on either side of an equal sign? Which of their mathematical variables contains life?

Consider another translation for these verses in Chapter One of the New Book of Genesis.

Genesis 1:5 - God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night." ...

God called the light "day," and the darkness He called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning--the first day. (Genesis 1:5)

Where did time come from?

The intent of this verse is not that the Supreme Being was going around naming things. Rather, this verse is communicating that via the differentiation between darkness from light, the Supreme Being created time.

The separation of light and darkness creates periodicity. Periodicity produces rotation, and it is the rotation of periodicity that produces the element of time. Without periodicity, there is no pacing. No alternation. Once God set into motion the element of time by separating light from darkness, He could now establish the pacing of time.

This might be compared to building a clock. When a clock-maker builds a clock, he produces gears that are a particular size. He fits these gears together in such a way that they counterbalance each other. This counterbalanced gearing produces tension, and the tension, together with the size of the gears, makes the gears turn at a certain period. This period is the pacing of the clock.

Now once the clock is built, the clockmaker can then wind up the clock and set the clock. This is being described in this verse.

God put time into motion early in the creation because He set up the physical universe to be governed by time. There is a beginning and an end to everything in the physical universe. Everything has time attached to it. This is because the physical universe - and all of the elements here - are changing with time. Every event and structure is transitory, and therefore, temporary.

What is the purpose of time?

Time is set up to allow for learning. Time allows lessons to be learned. Because of the transitory, changing nature of the physical world - driven by time - we are allowed to learn one lesson after another. We might compare this to setting up a school with the first grade followed by the second grade, followed by the third grade and so on. The setting up of the grades is established so that the child can graduate from learning one set of lessons to being ready to learn the next. Time is set up so that following the learning of one lesson comes the next lesson to learn. This allows us to evolve.

In other words, God created the physical universe as a school or rehabilitation center.

Time is part of the physical universe, but it is not an element of the spiritual world. This is illustrated here, as God created time. God is not subject to time, as He created time.

Our minds have a problem with the concept that there is a place where there is no time. That is because our minds are physical. Our minds are recording devices, and they only record what they have been exposed to by the senses. Thus our minds only have the experience of an environment governed by time.

Those scientists that analyze the singularity problem, and others who are also probing the source of everything, often ask this question:

Who or what created God?

This question assumes the element of time. It assumes that God had a beginning. The question is born from a mind that has only experienced an environment governed by time. A mind that has only experienced that things have a beginning and an end.

There is no time in the spiritual world. God does not have a beginning. God is eternal, and His spiritual world is eternal. Neither God nor His spiritual world is governed by time.

This is evidenced by these verses that God set time in motion. He first separated light from darkness (Gen. 1:4) and thus created periodicity. Then He established the first day by putting that periodicity into motion.

The spiritual realm, in contrast, is a place of perpetual light. The spiritual world is eternally illuminated by God's light. There is also no time in the spiritual world. God is not governed by time. He created time to establish a basis for our rehabilitation.

Let's use an example. Let's say that a substance abuse rehabilitation center has a twelve-step program for its patients. Every patient must undertake actions to achieve each step, and after finishing the twelfth step they get to leave the rehabilitation center.

Where did the twelve steps come from? They were developed by the doctors who set up the rehabilitation center. The twelve steps do not exist outside the rehabilitation center: They are specifically designed to progress the rehabilitation center patients toward their being able to re-enter normal society.

This is a similar situation with time. God established time in order to set up the progression for our evolution process - our process of rehabilitation.

Consider another translation for this verse in Chapter One of the New Book of Genesis.

Genesis 1:9-10 - "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place ..."

And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:9-10)

Is this about the elements?

Here we see that the Supreme Being created yet another element or state, that of solids. "Land" here is allegorically used so that those without a scientific understanding could relate to it.

If these scriptures, written thousands of years ago, were to utilize language that scientists use today, no one would have understood them. This doesn't mean that there is no accuracy here, however.

Remember the analogy discussed in the previous commentary, of how a parent might explain their job to their child. The parent would put the language in such a way that the child could relate to. The parent might also use some allegory, using a simplistic representation to illustrate how they do their job. If they got into the technical areas of their job, the child could not understand them. The parent would not lie to the child about their job. They would simply describe it in words the child could relate to.

In the same way, Genesis simplifies the creation within a language that people who had no telescopes, no microscopes, and little understanding of the universe could understand.

The accuracy in Genesis is that God produced each of the core states of matter and the atomic elements that make up those states. He first created the fluid state and those atomic elements that makeup fluids. Then He created the gas state, expanding upon (or "separating") the fluid state. Now He is creating the state of solids and those elements - also referred to in other ancient texts as the element of "earth."

Do we really need to know all the technical information about how the Supreme Being created each state of matter and each element? Do we need to know which chemical reactions He stimulated first, and how each was set up? And what good would it do us if we knew this information? Would it allow us to know God better? Would it make us happier?

In addition to using language that a common person thousands of years ago could understand, Genesis also utilizes the word "day" to account for time. Sectarian interpretations of Genesis have tried to put forth a literal doctrine, proposing that all of the matters of creation, from the beginning to the end took seven earth days consisting of 24 hours. Does this make sense?

Any scientist will tell us that the word "day" is relative to the observer. To a person on the planet Venus, a day would last about 243 earth days. Depending upon the planet's position to the sun, and its rotation on axis, the length of the day is different for every planet. Now let's consider what a "day" might be in other solar systems, where planets are on significantly different orbits, with different types of suns. Then let's consider what a "day" might be to a person who wasn't a citizen of a particular planet or even solar system, but someone who's realm was greater and larger than that even of a galaxy.

Or further, let's consider the Supreme Being, Who is not subject to time. Time does not control God. Therefore, the "day" discussed here is not only relative, but it is also entirely meaningless in terms of gauging using our earth clocks.

In other words, a "day" here would translate to millions of earth-years.

Is the universe proportional?

The above point takes the air out of many modern scientists' argument that creation according to Genesis could not have happened. When we remove the interpretation that the technical details are to be taken literally, and we take into account that the language was simplified to communicate to people of a more simple era in human history, we can begin to realize that yes, God could certainly have created the physical universe as described in Genesis.

We must remember that we too are children in the scope of the Intelligence that produced the mechanics of the physical universe. And if Genesis got even a little closer to the technical details, creation would still be over our heads - due to the limitations of our minds.

This ability to arrange the elements is the essence of proof of the existence of an intelligent Supreme Being. Arrangement means there is an ultimate cause, and there are intelligence and purpose behind the arrangement.

We can see the Supreme Being's arrangement from the largest to the smallest things. We see arrangement within the galaxies and solar systems; and see similar arrangement within the atoms and molecules. And we see that everything in between is also intricately and beautifully arranged.

Consider the various arrays we see around us: Of swarms of fish symmetrically flitting through water. Of flocks of birds flying in symmetrical formation through the air. Of patterned stacks of cells making up skin or any other body part. Of root systems and tree branching that expand with a Fibonacci arrangement.

Centuries ago, scientists found that nature was filled with the Fibonacci rectangle and triangles - also called the 'golden rectangle' and 'golden triangle.' As they measured the height versus width of trees, people, animals and so on, they continually saw this proportion, eventually named the golden ratio (1.6180339....) duplicated throughout nature. They saw it among hands, feet, arms, faces, branches, fruit and practically everywhere else within nature.

Is creation accidental?

This type of arrangement among nature is not accidental. It is not as if an accidental explosion could produce perfect symmetry among nature, along with evolution and learning systems randomly. It is virtually impossible - as most of the brilliant minds have come to understand - that this level of arrangement could be accidental.

While these facts are certainly scientific, this opposes the assumption of many modern scientists that the universe is the result of a random, accidental explosion.

Let's use an example. Let's say an alien who knows nothing about humans walks into a house and sees in the living room a sofa, chairs, coffee table, lamps and TV; all arranged in such a way that all the chairs face the TV, and the lamps are behind the chairs. They also see that the coffee table is between the sofa and the TV.

What would the alien suppose about this living room? Yes, they would conclude that the persons living in that house had a special inclination to look at the television for some reason. And they'd be right.

But what would be their most basic assumption? That there were living beings who arranged the house in a particular way. They would assume that the house was maintained by living beings.

Why? Because they saw arrangement within the house. They saw that the chairs and sofa and television were placed in a particular way. In other words, they not only saw organization: They saw a purpose to that organization.

This is precisely the scenario of the physical universe. We see tremendous organization within this universe. And yes, that organization would certainly indicate an organizing force.

But we also see arrangement with purpose. We see that the organization of the physical world indicates purpose.

Scientifically, every cause must include the potential for its effect. Since there are arrangement and organization within nature, there must be an Organizer. There must be an Arranger. This is the Supreme Being.

Consider another translation for these verses in Chapter One of the New Book of Genesis.

Genesis 1:11-13 - Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation ...

Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning - the third day. (Genesis 1:11-13)

We can see here that God created vegetative life before He created the fish, birds and other more evolved creatures. Does this mean that the evolutionary process was supported by God?

What were the first life forms?

Modern scientists theorize that the first forms of life were single-celled amoebas, such as plankton from water. While that makes logical sense, there are two issues to consider. The first is that if a teacher would have told a person thousands of years ago that the single-celled creatures were first, no one would understand what they were referring to. The information would have not made any sense. The second is that the beginning of plant life - zooplankton - is a single-celled creature.

We must remember that ancient scriptures such as this were passed down through the generations for many centuries in the oral tradition. This means that a teacher would communicate this information to their students. At some point, the information was put into written form, 3,000 to 5,000 years ago.

As the information was being passed down from teacher to student, allegory and symbolism were used in order to communicate the central message: That God created the physical universe and all the living organisms within it.

We also can understand from the text that simple organisms in the form of vegetation - zooplankton, spores and so on - were created before the more complex species such as fish, birds, mammals, and humans. This indicates that God certainly supported the mechanics of evolution.

We can also see this from the phrase, "...according to their various kinds": This indicates that God programmed into the physical universe the element of diversity.

As our scientists have determined, every living organism is equipped with a genetic structure that can produce changes in the organism over time to increase that organism's ability to survive.

But where did DNA come from?

Did DNA accidentally appear through an accidental arrangement of molecules?

The renowned geneticist and co-discoverer of DNA, Dr. Francis Crick, agreed that this is highly unlikely. He said:

"An accidental formation of DNA from a batch of chemicals might be compared to dropping 1000 typewriters and 1000 illiterate monkeys out of an airplane and expecting the books of the Library of Congress to be typed up and ready for printing when they all hit the ground."

Furthermore, another peer-reviewed geneticist calculated the change of even one accidental genetic mutation of DNA. His calculations established that the odds of only one accidental favorable mutation occurring was on the order of 10 to the power of 3,000. That means:

One chance in
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That is just one accidental mutation. Now to get from a microbe to a human will take billions of successive mutations. And each of these billion would have the same chance of occurring. That means we'd have to multiply 10 to the power of 3,000 times a billion to get the chance of microbes developing accidentally into humans.

In other words, by scientific calculation, we have determined that it is next to impossible that chemicals accidentally developed DNA, and life accidentally mutated from one species to the next, from microbes to humans.

DNA and the evolution of species - which is being inferred in Genesis by this narration that plants and zooplankton preceded more complex species, was the result of the intelligent programming of God.

Isn't that what DNA is: a programming code? We use a similar system of on-off states - called the binary code - for computer programming. This is an almost identical format that DNA uses, with four amino acids assembled in different order. This order indicates particular intelligent assembly: programming, in other words. This simply means that God uses a quaternary (4) programming code format instead of a binary (2) code format as we use in computers.

Just as a programmer originally set up the binary system of on-off states for the computer's programming, God set up the quaternary programming for the DNA sequence, which allowed for more complex programming instructions.

What about evolution?

The evolutionary process, of course, took millions of years to occur, and this is confirmed by carbon dating systems. But what is a million years to God? Is it a week? A year? Perhaps a day? In other words, as discussed previously, time is relative to the person and condition. In the case of God, God is beyond time and space. He is not governed by time. So the use of the "day" here is simply allegorical and indicates a much longer period in human-relative time.

We must distinguish this God-programmed evolution from the theories of modern-day Darwinists who have speculated that life originally arose accidentally from chemicals, and continued to evolve accidentally from the microbes to humans. Besides the issue of chance (assuming all these mathematically-impossible accidents did happen), does their theory have scientific validity?

First, we must ask what is the driving force behind genetic mutation according to these scientists? It is the innate desire for survival (also called survival of the fittest). So the question becomes, how did a bunch of dead chemicals develop an innate desire for survival? Where did that come from? Certainly, chemicals have no such principle.

There is absolutely no logic to this notion because dead chemicals combined together must first be able to distinguish between life and death before they could have a desire for survival. They must be afraid to die, in other words. This fear of death is the only motivation for the species to want to develop better organs or appendages in order to fight off death.

But how could a batch of chemicals discern between life and death, and the desire to survive? For a batch of chemicals, remaining dead would be the more logical inertia, since dead chemicals do not have to fight to survive. Therefore, there is no scientific validity that chemicals could develop the desire to survive - the fundamental requirement for genetic mutation.

Where did life come from?

So where did this spark of life, which has an innate desire to survive come from? There is only one logical conclusion: It must have come from a living source. Something already alive must have impregnated matter with this living spark, which maintains an innate desire to survive. This living Source, of course, is God.

Every living organism contains a tiny spark of life. These are transcendental living individuals who have been impregnated into each organism. And the reason every organism struggles to stay alive is that this transcendental living individual originates from a place where there is no death: This is the spiritual dimension.

This is also why we all go through life in denial that we are going to die. Most of us live life as though we will never die. Yet scientifically we can establish that every physical organism dies. So why do we emotionally deny this fact? Because we are eternal by nature. By nature, we are transcendental to the physical universe.

Why is the spiritual individual here in this temporary physical world then? Why are we here?

Each of us has been impregnated into the physical universe because the physical universe is a place of learning. It is a rehabilitation center for those spiritual individuals who could not maintain the consciousness of the spiritual dimension.

And what is that consciousness? It is the consciousness of love. Those of us living in the physical universe are here because we became self-centered. We became envious. We no longer wanted to be citizens of the spiritual world: We didn't want to serve God: We became envious of God.

Consider another translation for these verses in Chapter One of the New Book of Genesis.

Genesis 1:14-19 - And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate ...

And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning - the fourth day. (Genesis 1:14-19)

What is electromagnetism?

Here we find the Supreme Being has produced an intertwining of light, time and the electromagnetic elements that allow planets to rotate around the sun; and solar systems that rotate around each galaxy center.

Remember again that this is a simplified version of creation that allows the human mind and sensual experience to relate with the concept that everything around us has been created by a Supreme Being.

For those who consider themselves scientists who might scoff at such a simplistic version of creation, we ask what would be the result if the explanation of creation discussed black holes and galaxies and the so many other elements of nature that humankind had never heard of? Would this create any more understanding of the central lesson - that everything was created by a Supreme Being?

Even today, though physicists now theorize that the center of each galaxy is a black hole, no one has ever seen a black hole and there is no absolute proof they exist. How do they know the center of the galaxy is a black hole, then? The answer is that the black hole is the only thing they have been able to imagine that will fit the holes in their observations and equations.

But what if the scripture discussed scientific elements never seen before? What if Genesis discussed the many, many elements that scientists have yet to discover? These elements, would, of course, be too small for the eye and modern microscopes to see, and/or too far away for our telescopes or radioscopes to pick up. Would scientists then assume those elements existed, and suddenly trust that God must have created the universe since they have never heard of those elements?

No. How do we know this? Because the scriptures already describe elements beyond our senses, and this doesn't seem to make much difference: the scriptures describe the existence of a Supreme Being Who has the ability to create the entire physical universe, and a transcendental universe of another dimension, outside the physical dimension. And this doesn't seem to make much difference to many modern scientists. They still want to deny the existence of God.

Why can't our instruments find God?

This is despite the fact that modern scientists keep looking deeper and deeper, smaller and smaller, and further and further away for the precise element that is God. Scientists are looking for that element that provides the key to the structure and creation of the universe. They keep looking for that particle that holds matter together on the most fundamental level. They are, in fact, looking for God.

It is so obvious that modern physicists are looking for God that in 1993, Leon Lederman, Ph.D. coined the hypothetical particle determined in particle accelerator studies the "God Particle." This particle, also called the Higgs Boson particle, has never been seen or otherwise observed directly. It is only something that would fit their calculations. It has remained, according to these scientists, "elusive."

Okay, so let's get this straight. First, modern science has rejected the concept that a Supreme Being exists, even though the existence of a Supreme Being is the only element that can perfectly provide a clear and logical Source for all the material elements, as well as the source for all the living elements (personality, the desire to survive, intelligence, etc.).

Instead and in lieu of this most obvious choice, theoretical physicists insist on an imaginary and elusive particle they call the "God particle" that supposedly fits their equations. So this elusive particle must be the key element that is the source of everything?

Does this make any sense? Is it also the source of life? How can it be the source of life if it is not in itself alive?

Furthermore, this elusive "God particle" is being portrayed by science as having no intelligence and no purpose for existence. It is like all their other theories including quarks, strings, and theories of everything: Objects of their imaginations. They are lifeless creations of their minds. They are no more real than a bedtime story made up to put a child to sleep.

And these theoretical physicists like to accuse scripture of being without proof? What kind of proof do they have that their theories of accidental, random creation are true?

Even though the existence of a Supreme Being would fulfill all their mathematical equations and calculations (evidenced by naming the Higgs Boson particle the "God Particle"), these theoretical scientists prefer their imaginary theories. Why? Because these theories give these individual scientists the means to continue to ignore God's existence.

If they can ignore God's existence, they don't have to worship anyone other than themselves. They don't have to glorify anyone other than themselves and their colleagues. They can seek their own glory and their own fame as they achieve the acclaim and admiration of others for coming up with the most profound 'theory of everything.'

Why? Because this is our disease. This is why we are here in this physical universe in the first place: Because we wanted to get away from God. We want to ignore God. Why? Because we would rather be God than serve God.

If God exists, why can't we see Him?

The first part of the answer is that God is not like a mountain or a rock. He is not an inanimate object: God is alive. He is a Person. God is the Supreme Person. He is a living being, with intelligence, emotions, feelings, individuality, and purpose, Who comes from a dimension transcendental to this physical dimension.

The second part of the answer is that just because God isn't seen with the physical eyes doesn't mean He doesn't exist. It is like two children playing in a park down the street from their houses, and one asking the other: "If your parents exist, why can't I see them?"

Obviously, we cannot see God because our senses, on their own, do not have the ability to see God. They are equipped to see only a small range of physical structures, made of molecules that light reflects off and through with particular colors. Scientists also accept this, as they propose that quarks exist even though we cannot see a quark.

So our real question should be: Why are our eyes not equipped to see God?

Put in a better way: Why is God not allowing us to see Him?

Our physical bodies were designed to be in ignorance about God's existence. This is part of God's design. There is a purpose for this.

Each of us is temporarily occupying a gross physical body designed for certain tasks: navigating a physical world replete with a host of lessons and learning experiences. We can each look at our lives and realize that we are each going through a unique set of learning experiences through the years. And through each of the learning experiences, we are met up with a set of choices about what direction we want to go from here.

During this learning environment, God is unseen. This is because, first of all, each of us rejected God at one point or another in our existence. Thus, we have landed in these temporary physical bodies that cannot see Him. So we got our wish. Like an angry teenager who runs away from home, we are each now seemingly independent of God. We can now pretend that each of us is the center of the universe - even though it is obvious we are not.

Is there another world?

There is a dimension that is transcendental to this one. It is the world of love and loving service. In that world, everyone loves and serves the Supreme Being and the Supreme Being's associates. But a few of us decided we were too good for that. We decided we wanted to be served. We wanted to be the center. We wanted to be the subject of worship and admiration. In other words, we got greedy. We got selfish. And it is this self-centeredness that plays out amongst our earthly society – as we can see all around us in the greed, violence, and struggles for power taking place throughout this world.

Now we are here, seemingly independent of God. We can each now choose whether we want to accept that someone greater than me exists. Can there be a God? Someone greater than me? We must choose. And go through our various lessons. This is also why we are here: To rehabilitate. If we choose to learn and evolve, and come to accept that God exists, then we can evolve and grow closer to Him, and maybe return to the spiritual world.

And this is precisely why God is invisible to our eyes at the moment. If His existence was obvious, we would not have the choice to accept Him or not.

Let's compare this to a situation we see in typical relationships. While this analogy isn't complete, it will serve the purpose. Let's say a wife begins realizing that her husband no longer treasures their relationship. He is taking their relationship for granted and begins flirting with other women and carrying on as though he doesn't care for her. So she says enough is enough and tells him they need to separate for a while to see if he really wants to be married to her.

So they separate. How do they separate? Do they just move into adjacent rooms? No. One of them moves out of the house so that they do not see each other for a while. For a period of time, they have no contact. Why?

The period of no contact allows the man the ability to independently choose whether he wants to be with his wife. Not having her around gives him the freedom to choose. If every time he turned around she was there, this would hardly give the man the ability to make a clear choice.

This is sort of what the Supreme Being has done. Each of us is intimately connected to God. Once we rejected Him, He sent us off to be on our own, gave us a virtual world and temporary physical bodies to dwell within temporarily; in order to give us the choice of whether we wanted to be with Him or not. That is the purpose of the physical world.

Consider another translation for these verses in Chapter One of the New Book of Genesis.

Genesis 2:1-3 - Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array....

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done. (Genesis 02:1-3)

What are 'the heavens'?

Here the word 'heavens' is being translated from the Hebrew word שָׁמַיִם (shamayim), which means 'visible heavens, the abode of the stars, universe, atmosphere, visible sky.' This reference is not the spiritual dimension.

The spiritual dimension has no beginning. It is eternal, as is God. Both the spiritual dimension and God are above the element of time and the jurisdiction of time. Time was created by God as explained in Gen. 1:5. God created periodicity, which is the pacing of time.

This also means that God was neither born nor created. Many have asked: Assuming God created the universe, who created God? No one created God because God has always existed and will always exist.

This may seem inconceivable to the human mind, but that is because our mind's notion of time has been derived from observation of the physical world. Our minds have no ability to enter the spiritual dimension because they are physical, and they collect physical observations.

Time is, in fact, an alien element to those who dwell with God within the spiritual dimension.

However, the souls who have rejected their relationship with God become trapped within temporary physical bodies, and this shackles the person to the element of physical time.

The purpose of time within the physical dimension is not unlike the pacing of grades for children. A child will advance from one school grade to the next as they pass the tests needed to graduate to the next grade. In the same way, God established time as a system for us to be rehabilitated gradually, to a point to where we can choose to return home to our relationship with God.

What is the purpose of time?

Within each lifetime we have time-paced sections that include childhood, adolescence, young adult, adult and elderly years. Each period teaches specific types of lessons. Then each of us lives multiple lifetimes, each within different bodies where again we learn distinct lessons - enabling us to evolve.

As we graduate up the levels of these lessons, we come to a point where we can consciously decide whether we want to return to God or not. This occurs within the human form of life. Should we choose to return to our home with God - the spiritual dimension - then God will personally take us through the advanced course, and help us to become purified enough to return to Him.

In order to create this system of learning, God created the constant advancing of time, measured by periodic movement and the motion of atomic particles.

God's process of creation also utilized time, to pace with our evolution. God programmed DNA to reflect the individual's consciousness so that our particular physical body at a particular time would reflect our personal evolution - our level of rehabilitation.

If we compare this to the grading system in school, each progressive grade has different activities. Kids in the seventh grade, for example, can now pick course electives, because they have advanced through the first six grades where they had no choice in the subjects. So these seventh graders utilize a school that is set up differently - with more choice.

In the same way, as we advance through the lessons of the physical world we do so in successive lifetimes and different bodies. In the human form, we have a higher consciousness and more choices. Now we can choose how we make our living - or survive. We can also choose whether we want to be nice to people or be mean to people. These choices are permitted because we rose through the lessons that the lower forms of life taught us: Such as the value of survival, the fact that others exist with different experiences, and others experience things separately from us.

This process of growth - our rehabilitation - is symbolically represented in the six days of creation. God created the elements first, and put into motion with the element of time. Then He designed and stimulated the process of evolution by creating the bacteria and aquatic plant life with specialized DNA, which evolved into the more complex creatures by design. With each passing "day" the creatures became more complex.

Why? Because those living beings within those bodies were going through their rehabilitation process, and with each progressive body they learned more progressive lessons. As we rose in our evolutionary process, we eventually have the chance to gain the human form of life. This occurs on the sixth day, because it is the height of the evolutionary process - the point where we are given greater consciousness, and the choice of whether we want to return to God.

What is the meaning of the seventh day?

Those who decide they want to return to God enter the symbolic seventh day, where they begin learning how to devote themselves to God. This is the holy period. It is also a day of "rest" because during this stage of our lives we can stop focusing our consciousness upon survival issues - which relate to the desires to eat, have sex, and defend ourselves. In this advanced stage, we can refocus our consciousness towards serving God.

This is why, for example, Jesus did not stop his work serving God on the seventh day.

Should we arrive at this point in our existence, we can re-establish our loving relationship with God, and after the end of this lifetime, return to God in His spiritual dimension.

Those who do not use this human form of life to advance spiritually are sent back to the lower forms of life. This is because they have not learned those lessons they were supposed to learn.

For example, while in this physical world, should we not learn to treat others with kindness and fairness, and we hurt others, we will suffer the consequences of our treatment of others. Such a condition - where we are in a physical body suffering the consequences of our previous activities of harming others - is what the scriptures describe as "hell."

Are these literal days?

The six days of creation and the seventh day being a day of rest are both allegorical. As we've discussed, we know scientifically that God did not produce the universe and all the creatures in six 24-hour days. But we do know that the process of creation took place in a gradual, stepped process. This gradual pacing illustrates God's process as He designed and programmed an epic physical universe replete with the pacing of time to allow for an evolutionary rehabilitation process. "In all their vast array," the physical universe is massive and complex. We cannot even begin to fathom it with our minds, let alone fathom the spiritual dimension.

What we can fathom, and why this creative process is boiled down to six days - with the seventh day being a day that is to be spent focused upon our relationship with God - is that we really don't need to know all the minute details about this atomic element or that atomic element, or this DNA gene or that DNA gene. We only have a limited amount of time within this human form, and we need to use it wisely to re-develop our relationship with God. This was realized late in the lives of two of the greatest modern scientists, Leonardo da Vinci, and Albert Einstein.

In his elderly years, Albert Einstein said:

“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts. The rest are details.”

And Leonardo da Vinci:

"It is true that impatience, the mother of stupidity, praises brevity, as if such persons had not lived long enough to serve them to acquire a complete knowledge of one single subject, such as the human body; and then they want to comprehend the mind of God in which the universe is included, weighing it minutely and mincing it into infinite parts, as if they had to dissect it!"

In other words, knowing God is the only true knowledge worth anything. And to know God is not like knowing an inanimate object. God is a Person. Therefore, just as we cannot really know another person unless we have a relationship with them and they allow us to know them, we also cannot know God without having a relationship with Him and Him allowing us to come to know Him.

In other words, knowing God is the only true knowledge worth anything. But knowing God is not like knowing an inanimate object. God is a Person. Therefore, we cannot really know another person unless they allow us to know them. And in God’s case, we are introduced by someone who already enjoys a relationship with Him. This is why Moses, Jesus and all of God’s representatives introduced their students to God and taught this most important instruction:

“Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5)

“Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, His decrees, His laws and His commands always.” (Deuteronomy 11:1)

“So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today – to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul” (Deuteronomy 11:13)

“If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow – to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to hold fast to Him – “ (Deuteronomy 11:22)

“…because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today – to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways – “ (Deuteronomy 19:19)

“For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, decrees and laws” (Deuteronomy 30:16)

“…and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him. For the LORD is your life....” (Deuteronomy 30:20)

“But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to obey His commands, to hold fast to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul.” (Joshua 22:5)

“So be very careful to love the LORD your God.” (Joshua 23:11)

“Love the LORD, all His saints!” (Psalms 31:23)

“Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for He guards the lives of His faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.” (Psalms 97:10)

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” (Matthew 22:37-38)

Consider another translation of these verses in Chapter Two of the New Book of Genesis.