The Confirmation of Darkness and Light
Earlier we mentioned three Bible writers who brought their own point of view to Moses’ narrative of the darkness and the light. We will save the comments of John for another chapter. However, Isaiah’s and Paul’s comments add to the confirmation. They accurately describe darkness as a created thing from which light can form. When God says, I form the light and create darkness, He makes perfect sense to physicists. The darkness of gamma rays is the resource God used to form the light. How could Isaiah or Paul possibly have conceived of darkness shining and making light, thousands of years before physicists understood it and demonstrated it in the laboratory?
Gamma rays are dark and subatomic particles are invisible. The first visible thing in the universe was the light. Moses was right in saying that the darkness came first, and then the light. Not Moses nor Isaiah nor Paul could have known about gamma rays, the partial materialization of energy, and the formation of light. When they described the process God used to create the universe and to make light shine out of darkness, they used words that until the last half century made no sense if taken literally. Isaiah’s and Paul’s remarks were usually taken symbolically or spiritually. Bible interpreters have puzzled over their words for thousands of years. Yet their words fit exactly with what we now know about physics. Now we know that the literal sense is completely accurate.
Once again we ask the question: How did Moses, Isaiah, and Paul get their story right? They all quote God directly. Paul continues to say in the same verse that God made his light shine in our hearts. Just like Moses, both Isaiah and Paul say they got their information directly from God. If that is true and God exists, then the story makes sense. This gives strong support to the teaching that God inspired the Bible. Not Moses nor Isaiah nor Paul could have learned by study or reasoning the truth they give, but God certainly knew how He created the universe, and He let His friends know. When God’s friends wrote down what He told them, His Spirit kept them from making mistakes. The Bible writers often say they were careful to present nothing but the word of the Lord. The atheists who do not believe in God are the ones hard put to explain the accuracy of the Bible.
Gamma rays are dark and subatomic particles are invisible. The first visible thing in the universe was the light. Moses was right in saying that the darkness came first, and then the light. Not Moses nor Isaiah nor Paul could have known about gamma rays, the partial materialization of energy, and the formation of light. When they described the process God used to create the universe and to make light shine out of darkness, they used words that until the last half century made no sense if taken literally. Isaiah’s and Paul’s remarks were usually taken symbolically or spiritually. Bible interpreters have puzzled over their words for thousands of years. Yet their words fit exactly with what we now know about physics. Now we know that the literal sense is completely accurate.
Once again we ask the question: How did Moses, Isaiah, and Paul get their story right? They all quote God directly. Paul continues to say in the same verse that God made his light shine in our hearts. Just like Moses, both Isaiah and Paul say they got their information directly from God. If that is true and God exists, then the story makes sense. This gives strong support to the teaching that God inspired the Bible. Not Moses nor Isaiah nor Paul could have learned by study or reasoning the truth they give, but God certainly knew how He created the universe, and He let His friends know. When God’s friends wrote down what He told them, His Spirit kept them from making mistakes. The Bible writers often say they were careful to present nothing but the word of the Lord. The atheists who do not believe in God are the ones hard put to explain the accuracy of the Bible.
