you see, albert einstein believed that you could predict the movement of something by calculating the factors of things such as the force of gravity, the weight and mass of the object in movement, speed of movement, wind factors, air pressure, etc... and he believed that you could predict the movement of a specified object for all of eternity by an equation.
on the other side of this school of thought is quantum physics.
quantum physics states that there is absolutely no way to predict the movement of something. and that we live in a universe of random events and probability. in theory you could be walking across the street at an intersection and somehow as you are walking you could end up somewhere on mars and then right back on the crosswalk and end up on other side of the street. this kind of scientific philosophy is actually what enabled us to have such advanced technology like transistors and particle accelerators. but albert einstein hated this idea of quantum physics. he said that God would have never created a universe based on a roll of the dice. he stated that the universe that God created was planned and orderly. which he believed meant that everything was perfectly explainable and predictable because the hands of God had planned everything out perfectly. this even brought a great controversy to his own theory of relativity.
but something that hadn't quite yet been conceived was the string theory. which states that in every type of matter in the universe there is a "string" connecting them. meaning that in all matter there is a related "string." physicists don't know what this string is or where it comes from. all they know is that it is a sound wave... and this sound wave is holding all of the universe together.
one day when einstein was lying on his bed working out his equation for the theory of everything and he decided to put his pen and paper down and work on it the next day. unfortunately, he never woke up the next morning. all that was left was a half written on sheet of paper filled with unsolved equations.
albert einstein died with a mind in turmoil and unrest. and had he known about the string theory all the while having knowledge of the way God created this universe through speaking it into existence hey may have found a solution to his equation that has for so long struck up debate and cause much controversy in the scientific world.
as i laid in bed last night this very thought was going through my mind. and then i began to think about how it's not bad to question things... it's not bad to understand things. and most importantly, it's not bad to question things and still not understand them.
because maybe, just maybe in our own lack of understanding we can finally take a break and be able to hear God saying what He's always been saying... "be still and know that I am God." and for the first time in our lives we will be able to be content in knowing that He is the I AM... YHWH... Yahweh...
His Word is the "String" that connects the universe together. His Word is the one constant in this universe that keeps it from decaying into a game of probability . it is comforting to know that He won't leave us to a "roll of the dice" universe that has absolutely no organized structure. yet at the same time is flexible enough to somehow trust us to make our own story from time to time.
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