Pastor Frank DeFusco
On Nov. 2, we began our study on the Holy Spirit inspired Book of Genesis. It starts out with these words: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” And it would be safe for the skeptic to ask, “How do we know that is true, what if there is no God?” And many books have been written in answer to that question, both positively and negatively. I will not be able to answer all the critics in this short space, but I will ask of them, “If there is no God, why is there something rather than nothing?” And it is a question that we all must answer, because they are the only two options that the skeptic and the believer are left with.
Either no one created something out of nothing, or else someone created something out of nothing. So, which is the better option? Is it more reasonable that nothing created something? No! Even Julie Andrews knew the answer when she sang, “Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could.” Even the scientific Law of Causality states that for every effect, there must be a cause, and the effect can never be greater than its cause. Even widely acclaimed and agnostic astronomer Robert Jastrow suggested in his book “God and the Astronomers” with this classic line: “For the astronomer who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
Even Albert Einstein, when he first came out with the Theory of Relativity, was visibly irritated by his discovery that time, space, and matter were not infinite, but had a beginning. He realized that if it was true, then there had to be a cause. And as an atheist, he first tried to fudge the mathematical equations to dispel this truth but was caught. He later turned to pantheism, or a god that is the universe, but his comments better fit that of a theist when he stated that he wanted “to know how God created the world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thought; the rest are details.” The Law of Causality is the very foundation of science, so the next question is, “If every effect needs a cause, then what caused God’s existence?” “Who made God”? That is where the skeptics misunderstand the Law of Causality. It does not say that everything that exists must have a cause. It says that everything that had a beginning must. But God is an eternal being who had no beginning. And you are invited to learn more about the Genesis of our faith, Fridays at 10 a.m. in the Pima/Toltec Room.
Pastor Frank teaches two Bible Studies a week (Tuesdays and Fridays at 10 a.m. in the Sports Club). Please call 610–428-7244 if you have questions.