--GOD IS THE CAUSE OF EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS!

--"By Him all things
were created, both in
the Heavens and on Earth,
visible and invisible....
all things have been created
through Him and for Him."
--(Colossians 1:16) --

---One evidence of God is the immensity of our Universe. How did hundreds of billions of stars in hundreds of billions of galaxies come into existence? For years, atheists argued that the Universe always existed. But scientists now concede that the Universe had a beginning. Sir Frederick Hoyle coined the term "the Big Bang" to explain the origin of the Universe. Respected astronomers have confirmed that there are many other galaxies beyond our Milky Way and that the Universe is expanding; therefore, the Universe had a beginning.

Obviously, this theory raises a number of questions for the naturalist. From where did that dense mass of matter come? Scientists used to say that matter always existed. But is it logical to believe something came out of nothing? To say that the Universe is self-created is absurd because such a claim means that the Universe had both to exist and not exist at the same time.

A related question is, "What caused this explosion to occur?" Someone or something had to get the Creation process started. To assert that the entire Universe came from nothing and because of nothing is nonsensical. Those of us who believe that God created the Universe believe that He did so "exnihilo" (literally, "out of nothing").
He did not create the Universe out of material that already existed(ex materia") or out of Himself (ex Deo").

--PTV/RJ~--'AWESOME GOD'/ Rich Mullins~~

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