In the Beginning

 

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

    Before there was anything anywhere at all, there was the Word. So, the beginning referred to in the above passage of Scripture is not the beginning of time as we know it, or the Word, but rather the story of the beginning of the universe which we now inhabit. The Word is the voice of God who is with God and existed as God before the universe was created. The Word brought into being all that was brought into being by the sound emanating from the Word—“Let there be”—after the Spirit of God hovered or was in motion (Genesis 1:2-3).

   Only after the Word “spoke”—generated sound—did anything come into being that was not in being before the Word “spoke.” So, a discussion of what modern science has found to be the relationship between sound and first cause is appropriate.

   Modern science acknowledges that every chemical atom is made up of particles of only one substance—the Original or Primary Substance—that seems to occupy all space-time. The specific identity of a given atom, whether it turns out to be iron, phosphorous, hydrogen, or some other substance, depends solely on how many particles of negatively charged electricity revolve around a center of positively charged electricity, and the rate of speed at which they move.

   Modern science also acknowledges that all material substance, inanimate matter as well as animate or living matter, has no inherent qualities or characteristics that distinguish one part of this Original or Primary Substance from any other part of it. The electronic theory explains how all matter is evolved from one homogeneous Original or Primary Substance. But this does not explain how motion originated to create or produce something different from the Original or Primary Substance from which the negatively and positively charged electricity particles came.

   Science is also clear that if anything is in motion, its movement has been caused by someone or something. At the beginning of creation, the Word used sound to set all things in motion. Sound is transmitted through waves, and sound is the cause of the effect of the waves generated by it. So, we can say that in the beginning the Word produced the sound that caused waves that set everything in motion. Thus, science and the Bible agree that the Law of Cause and Effect requires that every effect is the result—and only the result—of the cause that produced it.