Our cosmology significantly affects our worldview.
Many do not realize that believing in a different version of the heavens and earth from what is presented in the Bible will skew our interpretation of creation and our way of looking at the various aspects of life connected to our worldview.
Our worldview determines how we view our origins, value, purpose, and destiny.
The biblical cosmology found in Genesis Chapter One and elsewhere in the Scripture reveals the truth about each of these things. The satanically inspired Big Bang theory of the “universe” inspires us to believe lies about God, creation, ourselves, our origins, purpose, value, and destiny.
The Big Bang – Heliocentric World View (BB-HWV) is evolutionary at its core.
It states that the universe created itself from a pinpoint through an inexplicable explosion through which incomprehensible energy and matter were released, expanding outward from the blast site, producing everything in the heavens and the earth, including life and humans. God is not in the picture, unless, as believers, we see him orchestrating these events and being the source of the energy and matter, for which atheists cannot account. This account of creation is diametrically opposed to what the Bible tells us.
Big Bang – Heliocentric World View
- Origins – The chaos of an explosion produced order and complexity, which violates the law of entropy. There is nothing beyond material matter, which denies the spiritual side of things. Everything can be explained materialistically and “scientifically.” There is no room for God or the miraculous.
- Value – Humans, being an accident of evolution, have no inherent value. What worth we might be given by others is measured by our productiveness and what we might contribute to the evolutionary process. If we negatively affect evolution or our “fragile ecosystem,” we become something to be eliminated. Human life can be snuffed out without concern. This thinking is behind abortion, euthanasia, genocide, etc.
- Purpose – Humans exist only to experience a very brief physical life and continue the species through reproduction. This is the basis of the philosophy of existentialism: there is no reality beyond what we personally experience. This leads us to conclude that there is no such thing as “absolute truth.” Such phrases as “my truth” or “your truth” derive from this false belief. Consequently, the experience of being in power and having pleasure are life’s greatest purposes. This worldview produced such dismal outcomes as Nazism and Stalinism.
- Destiny – There is nothing after physical life; therefore, we have no eternal purpose and no destiny beyond the grave. Therefore, we should strive to experience every pleasure now, while we have the opportunity. There is no worry about facing the consequences of our actions when we stand in judgment before the Creator.
Denying that God is the Creator and refusing to glorify him is one of the worst sins possible. When a people do this, it causes the entire society to descend into the chaos of lawlessness and rebellion.
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, Romans 1:28 (NASB95)
Biblical Worldview
Biblical cosmology recognizes that everything around us, the heavens and earth and all forms of life, were created in six days by God. Order sprang from God’s creative genius.
- Origins – God is the Creator. Everything begins with him. We see the complexity of our being and glorify God. (Psalm 139:14) God is a spirit. The spiritual world existed before the material creation.
- Value – Everything has value because it was made by God. Being the Creator, he alone has the right to assign value. For humans, being created in God’s image gives us incredible intrinsic value. After mankind’s fall from grace, Jesus shed his precious blood for us, telling us what our value is in God’s sight. We have no right to wantonly destroy what God made.
- Purpose – God made everything with a divine purpose. We humans were made to know, love, enjoy, and serve God for eternity. Knowing God is the greatest thing in life.
- Destiny – God’s wants to share his life and rule with people. That is why he made us and why he sent his son to die for our sins and rise again. When we put our trust and allegiance in Christ, our destiny is to co-rule with him forever while we revel in his glorious and loving presence.
The evolutionary BB-HWV dispenses with God and reduces humanity to a cosmic accident. Those who fully embrace it often become atheists, thus destroying their opportunity to share in God’s life and rule forever.
Those who embrace a biblical cosmology, recognize God’s handiwork in his creation and are led to seek and find him through Christ. They will more easily be able to glorify God as the Creator.
The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork. Psalm 19:1 (NKJV)
Many Christians have adopted aspects of the Big Bang theory without realizing that it contradicts the clear teaching of Genesis and other passages of Scripture.
Our accommodation of a non-biblical explanation of the the cosmos hinders our ability to properly understand what God means for us to derive from viewing the heavens.
I have noticed that believers who ascribe to the modern astrophysics view of the “universe” conceive of heaven as being merely a “spiritual place somewhere out there,” rather than the physical location above the firmament which the Bible describes.
As they stood with wings lowered, a voice spoke from beyond the crystal surface above them. 26 Above this surface was something that looked like a throne made of blue lapis lazuli. And on this throne high above was a figure whose appearance resembled a man. Ezekiel 1:25–26 (NLT)
I wrote another article about this, if you are interested in learning more.
Modern astrophysics also introduces a slew of extra-biblical ideas to confuse the mind and induce unwarranted fear – aliens, asteroids, solar flares, climate change, etc., as we supposedly hurtle through “outer space” at incredible speeds that nevertheless cannot be perceived in any way. This leaves us feeling small and insignificant, having to comfort ourselves with the belief that despite the vastness of the cosmos and our relative insignificance, God still cares about us and is present with us.
Biblical cosmology teaches that the earth is the center of God’s creation, protected by the firmament, and carefully watched over by the “Most High.”
It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:22 (NKJV)
