The Existence of the Universe is Surprisingly Simple to Explain
I remember sitting in Jr. High science class. Mrs. Lowe stood at the counter at the front of the room, laid a pencil on the table, and announced that the pencil contained something called “potential energy.”
That got me thinking: is “potential energy” just an abstract idea, or does the pencil actually contain something real? I’ve never turned that question into a formal theory, but it planted a seed that would eventually shape how I think about creation.
We’ve all heard the questions. We’ve pondered the implications, but have we really considered the answers? One of the most common is this: Where did God come from?
Recently, I’ve seen the idea raised that perhaps the universe itself never had a beginning. For me, that claim doesn’t resolve the question—it only shifts it. And it highlights how uncomfortable we are with the idea of something existing beyond our normal understanding of time.
I remember hearing about the Big Bang for the first time, and I remember being genuinely confused. I couldn’t picture what that actually meant. If all the matter in the universe came from a single point, what was that like? How did something so small give rise to everything we see?
One day, I came across an app from CERN—the European Organization for Nuclear Research—called Big Bang AR. It presented what I still consider to be a fascinating theory. I didn’t just read it once and move on; I thought about it for months. The more I turned it over in my mind, the more I began to wonder if CERN had stumbled onto something more than physics—if they had uncovered a clue pointing to God, perhaps even a physical sign of His existence.
That app no longer works, and it hasn’t been updated, but the idea it planted never left me.
“In this first moment, all the energy of the universe was one. The forces of nature were unified, and the energy was pure and perfect. But this perfection could not last. In a fraction of a second, the symmetry broke, and the energy exploded outward. This was the Big Bang.” — CERN, Big Bang AR app
This is the secular, scientific description of the Big Bang. Yet for me, it led to a convincing realization: God is real, and the questions I had about the universe finally began to make sense.
So let’s go back to my science teacher, Mrs. Lowe. That day she explained the difference between potential and kinetic energy and introduced the first law of thermodynamics. She summed it up with this simple statement: “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form to another.”
Now let’s think about that. We all live within time and experience existence as something linear, with a beginning and an end. Because of that, it’s difficult for us to imagine anything that exists without a beginning.
But that limitation says more about us than it does about reality. Everything we’ve ever known has existed within time, so we naturally think in those terms. Something that exists outside of time wouldn’t have a beginning or an end—it simply is.
Now, let’s make a simple tweak to CERN’s theory. Since energy cannot be created or destroyed, the only logical conclusion follows naturally. To help explain it, I like to borrow the method of my favorite fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, who once said: “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
The only way energy could exist under these conditions is if it exists outside of time. It cannot be created—so there is no beginning. It cannot be destroyed—so there is no end. It has no past, no future; it simply is. As God told Moses at the burning bush: “I AM.” Not “I was,” not “I will be,” but “I am.” That is a being who exists beyond the boundaries of time itself.
CERN describes this original state as “pure and perfect” energy that somehow became unstable. That description is where I think the explanation breaks down. Words matter. Something that is truly perfect—without flaw or imperfection—doesn’t simply fall into chaos on its own. Instability implies a cause.
So this raises an important question: what caused that instability? If the energy was pure and perfect, then the explanation cannot be randomness or defect. To me, a more coherent possibility is that this energy was not impersonal at all—that it possessed consciousness. Instead of exploding, it chose to create.
God doesn’t “come from” anywhere, because He has no past or future. He simply is. Existing outside of time, yesterday and tomorrow are just as present to Him as now.
“But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” — 2 Peter 3:8
In order to create something, there must be a beginning, which means a linear existence—a flow of time. So God used His pure and perfect power to create a universe, complete with planets. One of those planets was very special, because everything He was creating was leading to one purpose: God was forming a family—and you are part of it.
And that’s your reason for being. This is why you are on this earth.
Have you ever had one of those quiet moments where you wonder why you’re here at all? Whether your life actually has a point?
You are not a random accident. You are not meaningless. You are not here by chance. You have a purpose, and you have a reason for being. You were placed on this earth because God desired a family—and your life matters to Him.
As you think about the vastness of creation, the timeless energy that started it all, and your own life, take a moment to consider this: your existence is no accident. You are part of something bigger, something intentional, and that truth doesn’t depend on what you see or understand right now—it just is.
On the pages of this blog you will find a reason for being. Your purpose is something personal to you, but there is one thing I can tell you, that is you have a purpose. At the same time, God only desire for you is to receive his forgiveness and become the child of his. That’s his desire for you.
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