Creation
In this upcoming sermon, “The Creation in Christ,” we find a paradox, an apparent contradiction in terms, which upon further reflection, make perfect sense. This contradiction is found in the verse for this sermon in John 1:3-4 NAS.
“All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him, not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind.”
The paradox is found in the words through and in. Through implies movement, while in implies location or enclosure. Through Jesus expressed as a verb, in movement, action, and power, He creates the worlds. But they were made in Him, a noun, meaning the location of this creation and Life. So, Jesus is both the cause and the place, the verb and the noun of creation!
The Atom
The atom is a noun and the building block of everything. It consists of three essential elements, electrons, protons, and neutrons. The atom only exists when these elements are in union. However, this is not a bond that forms a single unit like a drop of water or a grain of sand. But a space, an enclosure, by the electrons revolving around the nucleus of the neutrons and protons. The electrons are negatively charged, with the neutrons neutral and the protons as positive energy forming an atom. The power or energy is not found in any of the three particles individually but the relational energy between them. A proton individually is not an atom, nor is an electron. They only exist as an atom when in relationship to the others. To split the atom, to try and change its shape is to create destruction, the fission atomic bomb. Simply put, at the center or heart of the Universe is a union. A relationship through which all things are created and enclosed.
Atom Reflects Nature of God
Therefore, the Trinity is both the noun and verb, dynamic Life and present Home. The very shape of the Divine and the very essence of everything. The Son is not “God” by Himself, as the proton is not the atom on its own. The Divine Life only exists or consists in the relational space between Them. To attempt to split Them even in theory is one of the most destructive heresies of the church. So, as the “Word,” the expression of the whole, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the Universe is created through and in Jesus Christ its King.
It is in this space in which we exist and in His Life in which we live. We had nothing to say about our origin and place, but we can choose to become what we are within it!
Atom Reflects Nature of God is the introductory blog for the sermon below: