God's Power Holds All Things Together and Deteriorates Quality At The Same Time

The above statement, an apparent paradox of a two sided coin, tells us about the two most basic and well proven laws of nature. These two laws, the conservation of mass-energy and entropy, govern every process that takes place in nature. Whatever the process, whether it be mechanical, electrical, chemical, or biological, must proceed in conformity with these two laws.

In the first chapter of Colossians we read two amazing verses, about God the Son, that tell us about the first of these most basic of all scientific principles (Col 1:16 KJV) For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: (Cot 1:17 KJV) And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

This implied principle is called the First Law of Thermodynamics and is one of the best proven laws of science, but science cannot tell us why it is true. Let us first look at the law and then let God tell us from these two verses why the law is true.

This law is the principle of conservation of mass-energy or the "all things" of verse 16. According to this principle, nothing is now being either created or annihilated but only conserved as far as quantity is concerned. The state of matter can be changed to another, like water can be either solid, liquid, or gas. One type of energy can be converted to another, like electrical energy to light energy (the light bulb). And then under certain conditions, matter and energy can be interchanged, like nuclear fission in a reactor. But in all of these examples the total quantity of mass-energy is always conserved.

Now let these two verses tell us why this is true. The reason nothing is now being created is because Christ created the "all things” in the past, as verse 16 tells us. Now if the "all things" were created in the past there is nothing left to be created now. The reason why nothing is now being annihilated is because the "all things" are now being sustained or held together by Christ as verse 17 tells us. The word "consist" in verse 17 has the archaic meaning of to hold together, it is the translation of the Greek word sunistano from which we get the English word "sustain".

In the first chapter of James we read one amazing verse, about God the Father, that tells us about the second of these most basic of all scientific principles. (James 1:17 KJV) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

This implied principle is called the Second Law of Thermodynamics and is also one of the best proven laws of science, but and again science cannot tell us why it is true. Let us first look at the law and then let God tell us from two other verses why the law is true.

The second law is that there are things that do not conserve, Quality is deteriorating, running down toward physical chaos and biological death. The name of this law is entropy. Here is where we need to go to scriptures to understand this word entropy. In James 1: 17 the word "turning "is from the Greek trope. When combined with the Greek for "in" (that is en) it becomes entrope, (Strong's Greek word # 1794) which means in Greek "confusion" or "shame". We get our English word entropy from this source, which thus literally means "in-turning". In science, any system which turns in on itself, without drawing on external sources of energy (a hot cup of tea will cool) or information (a message sent around a circle of people will end up different from when it started) will experience an increase of entropy, or disorganization.

Now let two verses tell us why this is true. From the old Testament we read, (Gen 3:17 KJV) And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast heartened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shah thou eat of it all the days of thy life; and from the New Testament we read (Rom 8:22 KJV) For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. These verses tell us of Gods primeval curse on "the whole creation". That is, even though all things are being conserved in quantity by God, they are deteriorating in quality. But God Him-self, who imposed these laws on His creation, is not bound by them. There is not even a "shadow of turning" with Him.