Creation and how it came into existence has, from time immemorial, been enigmatic to nearly all human beings on the face of the earth and will continue to be so for unforeseeable future. Scientists have pre-occupied themselves with the search for the answer. Archeologists have been digging looking for elusive evidence. What figure are we going to give that we can say would be able to boast that they are not trapped in the mystery? Is it two million or four? Or the entire population of Christians which is said to be 2.4billion world-wide or the Muslim population of 1.8billion world-wide? I mention Christians because there are sufficient hints in the Bible, indeed, in Genesis. It is the comprehension of the revelation that is undoubtedly the hindrance. That being so, to say the world can boast of two million who can boast they are not trapped in the mystery of how Creation came into being could amount to being generous. Come to think of it: this is even in the face of the world’s population nibbling at an arguable figure put at 8billion by PEW in 2020. Yet, mankind will not give up.
It is for this reason that I consider for contemplation today a posting to this column in which issues are raised bordering on how Creation came into existence. The post reads as follows:

“The Big Bang theory is the most widely accepted of how the universe came to be among scientists, especially astronomers, and irrefutable evidence supports this (The Microwave Background Noise). A diversion of thought, Science’s claim about the Big Bang, the cosmos, the Earth, and life do not conflict with the Catholic faith. The Roman Catholic Church has accepted Darwin’s theory of evolution for six decades.

“It is debatable, however, whether there is only one universe or we are part of a multiverse for the following reasons:

1). It recognizes that our universe was formed through external force.
2). We have learned enough about the origin of our Universe, and there is no compelling explanation that the answer to know our Universe’s origin can be found in our universe.
3). It offers a satisfactory explanation of the question: Where did God come from?

“I believe that the answer to how our Universe was created can be found outside our Universe, not within it. So, to dimension to spirituality, while most humans believe God created the Universe, humans are essentially saying if it cannot be understood, then a superior being is responsible since we cannot fathom who she/ he/ it is. People are satisfied with that – there is no debate about that at this level. But a curious mind would ask, if our general premise is that there cannot be something out of nothing, that is, everything we know is all part of God’s plan, then where did God come from? The multiverses theory may explain the origin of God if we cannot answer that.

“The flame is the Sun stored in the form of carbon components, and when it burns, carbon and oxygen in the air combine again under immense heat and go back to carbon dioxide. I’m going this route to justify there must be some external influence on the birth of our Universe, so the origin of God will always be unanswerable question because we don’t have access to outside our Universe where the answer may lie. Likewise, if the Big Bang occurs, followed by the Universe’s inflation like a balloon, then the cause must be external, again supporting that the multiuniverse is probable.

“There cannot be fire without a spark, but there can be gold and diamonds out of that without a creator. Once fire starts, there is no need for an external force, though. Our Universe is self-sustaining after the Big Bang. –Peter.”

In the present time, a great many human beings have saturated their heads with all sorts of things. They feel on top of the world that they are unable to hold themselves in check, but display the audacity to ask from where the Most High, our Maker, the Almighty God, comes from? It is elating that bad as things are, the waves of growing irreligiousity engulfing many parts of the world, the enquirer recognises the existence of the Creator, God. I was availed a video recently in which some young girls in Israel said in an interview that they did not know who Jesus Christ was. They had not heard the Name before. Smiling, they asked the interviewer: “Who is He?” In Israel of all places!!

Those who have come to the recognition of Him can only admonish themselves not to waver, but stand firm. We are expected to draw closer to Him by the hour, every day. The more we do so, the more we perceive and recognise His Greatness and perceive in reverential awe and worshipful adoration of His Holy Name. However, we are told in the enlightenment spreading on earth in these times that the true worship of God does not lie in wringing of hands but in swinging in His Will which is manifested in His Laws. With doing His Will by heeding His Laws which span the entire Creation, but more known as Natural Laws on earth, we get increasingly perfect, and the more perfect the more discerning. The Laws make doing good and being pure a condition of compliance. It is by so doing that we will not be entangled with guilt arising from dross that overcasts our spirit. And the unhindered intuition will be free to admonish, to warn and to guide. With this, the greatness of the Almighty Father becomes even more discernible, more visible in our lives that the question of where He comes from will not arise. That He is would be enough to bow the spirit.

Since the question has been asked, I will nevertheless attempt to answer it In The Light of Truth. It need be made plain that there is only one God and one Power. He is Life. When we contemplate Life, we find that Life is Life. It has no beginning and has no end. We are told: Hold Life before your gaze and you find that there was never a time Life was not Life because It is Life Itself. It is autonomous. It is independent. It requires nothing from anywhere to make It live because It is Life. Life is, therefore, eternal. When God willed that Creation should come into existence, He uttered the proverbial Holy Word: “Let there be Light.” Dake’s Annotated Bible reports: “And God said, ‘Let there be light: and there was light.’” (Genesis 1: 3). In Genesis 1:2, there is the revelation that states: “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” The Spirit of God in reference here is the Holy Spirit.

It should also be noted that in Genesis 1: 11 we read “And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its own kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth…” I will come back to this presently.

When God Almighty sent out the great Word, Let there be Light, it was a Part of Himself that was severed to anchor at the boundary of the Divine Realm. The Word automatically formed Itself into four equal-armed Cross. From the centre, bearing the severed Part, Holy Spirit, Rays shot out into the void at great velocity from the pressure of the resultant Power in the Word that is the Light. Thus in the Power is Light and Holy Spirit. Thus the Word is Light and the Light is the Cross and the Cross is Power. It is said in higher knowledge: “The existence of God, of Power, of Light, i.e. of Life, alone inevitably brings into being the Creations.” The four equal-armed Cross was seen by gifted people radiating behind the Lord Christ and the Dove above His Head, both testifying to His identity. The Cross was the Living Cross of Truth and the Dove the living symbol of the Holy Spirit. The Cross of Truth is different from the crucifix.

Although the Radiations of God themselves are not the Light, they nevertheless contain all that is necessary for Creations. The Radiations streamed down to immeasurable distances. With cooling along the way, entities began to emerge—the birth of Primordial Beings, of Created Beings, Developed Spiritual Beings and then the Residues that longed for self-conscious existence and so on. With the cooling, vast planes also emerged consistent with the degree of cooling.

This was the beginning of Creation. God the Creator is not in His Creation which is His Work. No artist is in his work nor does he merge with it. It can only bear his stamp of his expertise. This first Creation is called the Primordial Creation, and the inhabitants there are Primordial beings who are the ones referred to as having been created in the image of God. The image refers to their attributes of perfection, and unimaginable sizes and inconceivable beauty, the enrapturing splendour, for example. They are the spiritual ideals. They are the prototypes after whom all spiritual are to develop and realms and planes are seen as copies. So, we are told, as above so below. So was it that in the evolution of the Subsequent Creation which lasted millions of years, the appearance of and the sequence of the features on earth as described in the Bible are as they occurred in the Primordial Realm: grasses, plants, aquatic animals, birds, animals and then men. All said, it should be stated that man is limited in capacity to grasp the Nature of the Most High God.

There are seven Universes, not one. They are listed in the Book of Revelation of John but referred to as Churches. They are Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea (Rev. 1:11). Human beings on this planet earth are in Ephesus. Dr. Richard Steinpach contributing to the Magazine for the dissemination of the New Knowledge for True Upbuilding reported that about two decades looking back today, “radio telescopes began to probe the skies (which up till then had only been observed with optical instruments) and were able to pick waves even beyond those of visible light. Through these observations, revolutionary discoveries were made: that in the remote expanses of the universe into which our eyes cannot penetrate, there exist stars whose conditions and behaviour are without precedent. Dr. Stephen Lampe, states in his book, “The Primordial Laws of Creation” that our earth is a planet around the sun, and the sun is only one of the billions of stars in our galaxy known as Milky Way, The Milky Way itself is one of billions of galaxies in just this Universe, Ephesus. And each universe is driven by incomprehensible motion.

With such unimaginable size of each universe, it can be seen that this planet earth with all the inhabitants is no more than a speck of dust. It is undoubtedly an act of incomprehensible Love that given how conceited human beings have run it down, the Creator still cares so much for us His creatures.

(FULL TREATMENT TO ENCOMPASS OTHER ASPECTS OF THE ENQUIRY NEXT WEEK).