Assuming the Existence of a Creator! Page 48

Have you ever seen The Whirlpool Galaxy?  Many of us haven't and if it weren't for modern technology, none of us ever would. 

The Whirlpool Galaxy

The Whirlpool Galaxy is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus in the constellation Canes Venatici.

 It was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Wikipedia


Distance to Earth: 23,160,000 light years


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 Here is the definition of a Light Year:

light year

noun

ASTRONOMY

1. a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 10¹² km (nearly 6 trillion miles)

   
   
   Let's think about that distance for a minute and then marvel that modern science allows us to peer at a galaxy that is so far away from earth that it is almost incomprehensible and then let's baffle over the vastness of what is out beyond our vision and realize we must believe in things we cannot see.  Let's admit that there are places beyond earth and actually beyond our knowledge and understanding that are truly inconceivable!  

Honesty, I enjoy thinking about and writing about things that we cannot see because it opens our minds to the unknown.  For many, God is an unknown.  For all of us God is unseen-except in the recesses of our heart, mind and soul.  Believing in things we cannot see is the catalyst of faith.  Believing by “faith” is the summation of what we do when we believe in something specific but haven’t seen it 1^st hand.  I write this in order to share the following quote about a Creator-whom we cannot see-but none-the-less have great evidence of and, therefore, can have reasonable faith in:

“God intends us to enjoy His creation; that’s why it’s beautiful.  We see His wonders above us, beneath us, all around us, even within us.  We’re encircled by an eye-popping, mind-boggling, awe-inspiring cosmos, which logically implies that there’s a Creator who sees, thinks, and inspires awe. The universe is full of pulsating energy, so it’s Maker must be omnipotent”1 (Omnipotent defined: all-powerful or godlike).  “It appears virtually endless, so He must be eternal.  Because it’s finely calibrated, He must be intelligent.  Since it contains life, He must be personal; and since it’s magnificent, He must be altogether lovely.  Assuming the existence of a Creator isn’t a mindless leap of faith; it’s the most reasonable thing in the universe.”2

I love that last sentence.  Believing in God is "the most reasonable thing in the universe." That makes so much sense to me when you look beyond our visible, material world and into  the vastness of the unseen.  If this is too vast of a viewpoint let's scale back to earth's atmosphere for a moment: the simplest of things like a blue sky with white, billowy clouds should give us pause but, because it’s such an everyday visual, it doesn’t.  Frankly, it should for in them we have been given a vision of the magnificence of God. Why do I say that?  Because the Bible says that:

“The heavens declare the glory of God;

the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Day after day they pour forth speech;

Night after night they display knowledge.

There is no speech or language

Where their voice is not heard.

Their voice goes out into all the earth,

Their words to the ends of the world.”

Psalm 19: 1-4

Song Recommendation:

Architecture

BY:  Jonathan Thulin

1-Robert Morgan; The Heavens Proclaim His Glory; 2010 Thomas Nelson, Inc.

2-Robert Morgan; The Heavens Proclaim His Glory; 2010 Thomas Nelson, Inc.