![]() Everything is known and seen just as clearly as everything else, regardless of where it falls on the timeline of our physical existence. However, God is outside of time, meaning there is no past, present, or future from His perspective (which also helps bring into clearer focus Isaiah 46:10, which says He can call out the end from the beginning and beginning from the end). From our perspective, being bound by time, this initial creative act would have occurred in the past, hence the past tense language used in the verse. We know this from Genesis from when God said “Let there be light”, etc. In essence, God spoke everything into existence. Hebrews 11:3 tells us that everything was created by the spoken word of God. The reason this is important to realize goes back to the cause of the string’s vibrations. God is, by His very own nature, outside of time itself. Of course, He can inject Himself into time as He sees fit, but that does not mean He is bound by time like you and I. This is important because it shows that God Himself is outside of time. When considering this, we should keep in mind that even time itself is a creation of God. God is timeless, His spoken word is still in creation If string theory is an accurate definition of reality, this can help explain what exactly is causing the strings to vibrate. Notice specifically the text reads “what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” That is to say, everything in physical existence (what can be seen) was made by something invisible (something outside of what we can perceive from our three-spatial-dimensional perspective). “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” (ESV) In the English Standard Version, Hebrews 11:3 reads: This brings us to the last half of Hebrews 11:3. One of the leading theories basically states that whatever it is, it must come from a higher dimension. As of today, it is not known what exactly causes the string to vibrate. A particle is nothing more than the result of vibrations. In other words, the vibrations of the string is what produces the particle. According to string theory, the electron’s string vibrates less than the quark’s string.” (3) For example, an electron is less massive than a quark. The vibrations of the string is what determines what type of particle it is to be. Even more, string theory states that the strings within different particles are actually identical in nature but vibrate at different rates and in different patterns. “In essence, if you look deeply enough into any subatomic particle, you will find a string. String theory conveys the idea that every particle of matter is actually the result of even smaller strings that vibrate. First, it would be of great value to go over the basic idea of string theory in order to see if it might apply here. Now that we have the first half of the verse defined, we can begin to look at the second half. String Theory and how it relates to the Bible Hebrews 11:3 is referring to the literal voice of God it is saying that everything in existence was created by the literal spoken word of God. In John 1:1, “word” comes from the Greek “logos”, which as I explain in Quantum Creation, has deeper implications than a spoken word or voice. In Hebrews 11:3, the Greek word for “word” is “rhēma” meaning “that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word subject matter of speech, thing spoken of” (2). In Hebrews 11:3, a different Greek word is used than in John chapter 1 for “word”. There is much more that can be explored concerning the usage of “word of God” to refer to Jesus, but for our purposes here, we are going to look at a different usage. As I show in Quantum Creation, there are times that the “word of God” is in direct reference to Jesus Himself (such as in the first chapter of the Gospel of John), or even, in a sense, the preincarnate Jesus in the Old Testament. The term “word of God” is used many times throughout the Old and New Testaments of the Bible in reference to different things. This verse is talking about God’s creation, so it is reasonable that all three of these definitions are acceptable. “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” (KJV)įirst, to understand what is being discussed, the word “worlds” was translated from the Greek word “aiōn” meaning “for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity the worlds, universe period of time, age” (1). ![]()
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