Facts About The Bible

 THE BIG BANG WAS A CHRISTIAN IDEA

Here is one of those facts that just gets too forgotten. 

The Big Bang is the central idea around which cosmology, how the universe operates, revolves. The theory is accepted by just about everyone concerned with cosmology.

But what gets forgotten about it is that the idea did not begin as a scientific idea. Scientists did not arrive at the idea of the universe beginning with the great explosion that we refer to as the Big Bang.

It was a Christian idea. The scientific community almost universally accepted the so-called "Steady State Theory", that the universe had no beginning.

But a Belgian priest named Georges LeMaitre, who was a professor of physics at a Catholic university, knew that the universe must have had a definite beginning because the Bible describes God creating it.

It was indeed observed that other galaxies are apparently moving away from us. The more distant the galaxies are, the faster they are moving away from us. This could only mean that the universe did have a beginning, it wasn't always there.

Edwin Hubble often gets the credit for discovering that the universe is expanding, meaning that it must have had a beginning, the beginning that we refer to as the Big Bang. But the truth is that he was only confirming the idea that Georges LeMaitre had already put forward.

The idea of the "Big Bang" did not catch on quickly or easily. The term "Big Bang" was actually coined by a British scientist who was making fun of the idea. But today it is almost universally accepted.

The Bible was right after all, that the universe had a definite beginning. The once-widely accepted "Steady State Theory" has long since fallen by the wayside. 

The whole world should know that this theory, which is so central to modern science, was actually a Christian idea that was based on what was in the Bible, and which proved to be correct.

THE 153 FISH

All four Gospels tell of Jesus having a meal of fish in the final chapter of the Gospel. The Gospel of St. John actually gives the number of fish that the Apostles, who had been mostly fishermen, had just caught. There were 153 fish.

The Gospel states that even with that great weight of fish, the net didn't break. This implies that both the volume of fish and the net not breaking was miraculous.

What do you notice about that number, 153? There were 12 Apostles, and also had been 12 tribes of Israel. If we multiply 153 x 12, we get 1,836.

It was the Bar Kochba Rebellion, which began in 132 A.D., that led to the Jews actually being banished from Jerusalem and erasure of the very nation. An earlier revolt against Roman rule, in 70 A.D., is better-known, and led to the destruction of the Temple, but it is the Bar Kochba Rebellion that really began the Jewish Diaspora, or scattering.

The Jews, in the recently reborn state of Israel, recaptured the original city of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. After the old city had been incorporated into the new country, it's first full year of being part of Israel, since 132 A.D., was 1968.

What do you notice here? 1968 -132 = 1836.

1,836 is, once again, the number of fish multiplied by the number of Apostles. Was those 153 fish chosen especially to reveal when control of Jerusalem would be regained?

For those with an interest in science, if 1836 sounds familiar it is because it is the ratio of the mass of a proton to that of an electron. The two have an equal but opposite electric charge, but a proton has 1836 times the mass of an electron.