Several months ago I had an epiphany, or was it a hallucination? Anyhow, it was a rather startling thought–actually a crazy idea.
I was jogging along the path around my field out behind my house, but had to stop running so I could walk and chuckle to myself. You see, a rather ludicrous thought had crossed my mind. (Now don’t laugh too hard!)
A few weeks earlier I had viewed a TV documentary about the life of Albert Einstein. It related how this genius had discovered his Theory of Relativity. But it also pointed out how he had spend the last 25 years of his life in a frustrating search for what he called a Unified Field Theory. This, he hoped, would put everything together in one comprehensive, all-inclusive equation that would somehow explain just about everything in the physical universe.
The presumptuous thought which suddenly popped into my head was, “Hey, I’m smarter than Einstein!” Now, before you call the guys in the white suits, let me explain.
The Unified Field Theory (in this case, not theory, but fact), is contained in the New Testament in Paul’s Letter to the Colossians, Chapter 1, verses 16 and 17. “For by Him (Jesus) all things were created that are in heaven and are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things AND IN HIM ALL THINGS CONSIST” (New King James version, emphasis added).
Einstein wanted to figure out what holds all things together. Well it is not a mathematical equation, it is a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Who, by the way, is the author of mathematics) “For it is in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts17:28) . All things are held together, or “consist” in the Lord Jesus Christ.
To present this idea to some conclave of scientists would doubtless produce derisive laughter. Well, my mind is a dim candle compared to Einstein’s genius, but he worked for a frustrating 25 years to find another explanation. I think that it was right in front of him on the pages of the New Testament.
What do you think? If you have a better idea, I’ll consider it under one condition. You have to produce a theory of gravity explaining how and why it works the way it does! Good luck!
