The First Law of Thermodynamics
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.
(Hebrews 11:3) ESV
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
(Genesis 1:2) ESV
Genesis 1:2 gives us the conditions predicted to be necessary by scientific models of the beginning of the universe. A such, the first law of thermodynamics isn’t broken in the Biblical account of creation.
The existence of the deep means that the process of creation does not require God to create anything from nothing. This gives a way to show that nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) are Biblical. This allows us to understand today’s featured passage in such a way that we’re able to comply with the laws of Physics, foremost being the First Law of Thermodynamics.
The first law of thermodynamics is a version of the law of conservation of energy, adapted for thermodynamic systems. The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but can be neither created nor destroyed.
The first law is often formulated ฮ U = Q – W
– Wikipedia
This means that when our featured passage tells us “so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible,” it’s not saying that God created the universe from nothing, Ex Nihilo, it’s telling us that God created the universe from something invisible. In this case the gasses Hydrogen and Oxygen which then combined as the watery matrix of the deep, Ex Abyssi. Theologically conservative Christians are going to have to reboot their basic beliefs, and atheist provocateurs are going to have to revise their playbook.
The Law
โGive the Israelites the following laws:
(Exodus 21:1) GNT
In today’s Bible reading God gives the law, the Ten Commandments, for the first time. Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of this law and so there’s no requirement for us to have to carry out animal sacrifices for the forgiveness of sin. It’s a different world now, thanks to Jesus.
How is it possible for a Christian to live among the Gentiles in such a way that lets the Philistines know that they will experience consequences if they harass the children of God, but yet, not succumb to the lusts and passions which will destroy you and your work?
You don’t need to memorize Exodus or Leviticus. You need Jesus Christ, and then take the advice that the church in Jerusalem sent to people converting to Christianity all over the world.
- Don’t eat road kill
- Acts 15:28-29
- Maintain your moral purity
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3
- Be careful about what you look at
- Job 31:1
The Holy Spirit and we have agreed not to put any other burden on you besides these necessary rules: eat no food that has been offered to idols; eat no blood; eat no animal that has been strangled; and keep yourselves from sexual immorality. You will do well if you take care not to do these things. With our best wishes.โ
(Acts 15:28-29) GNT
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
(1 Thessalonians 4:3-6) KJV
I have made a solemn promise
(Job 31:1) GNT
never to look with lust at a woman.
The First Law of Thermodynamics – Navigation
| Section | Title | Scripture |
| 1 | Introduction | Hebrews 11:3 |
| 2 | Visible and Invisible | Colossians 1:16 |
| 3 | God is a Spirit | John 4:24 |
| 4 | Truth and Error | 1 John 4:6 |
| Salvation | Romans 10:9-10 |
Read through the Bible in a year
| Reading plan | January 22 | |
| Linear | Exodus 19-21 | |
| Chronological | Genesis 30-31 | |
| X | The First Law of Thermodynamics |
Salvation
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
