William Branham's View of Creation
Science has undergone what can almost be described as a revolution. For generations the prevailing view of the universe had been what is known as the steady-state theory. That is, the universe has always been and will always be. It is ungenerated and indestructible. Such a view was materialistic and atheistic. It contained no place for God.
In recent years this view has given way to the theory that the universe actually had an instant of creation. It came into being 15 to 20 billion years ago in a gigantic fireball explosion that sent suns and planets tumbling outward from this center into the form we observe them now. Moreover, they are still moving outward. In contrast to the steady state idea, this is called the big bang theory in reference to the instant of creation.
The change in scientific thinking goes back to 1913, when an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Vesto Melvin Slipher, discovered through his study of the shifting light spectrum of very distant stars that the galaxies in which these stars were found appeared to be receding from the earth at tremendous speeds—up to 2 million miles per hour. Six years later, in 1919, another American astronomer, Edwin Hubble, used Slipher’s findings to formulate a law for an expanding universe, which pointed to a moment of creation. Meanwhile, Albert Einstein’s theories of relativity were shaking Newtonian physics. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
As astronomer Fred Hoyle points out, the Big Bang theory requires the creation of the universe from nothing. This is because as one goes back in time, one reaches a point at which, in Hoyle’s words, the universe was “shrunk down to nothing at all.” So what the Big Bang model implies is that the universe had a beginning and was created out of nothing.[1]
Quotes of William Branham
“In the beginning God created the heavens and earth.” It might have been a hundred million, or billion, or whatever it was. And how He done it, that’s up to Him to know, see, not to me. But the world, well, “The earth was without form, and void; and the water was upon the—the earth. And God,” said, “moved upon the water.” And said, “Let there be light.”
Now, I believe that the sun, and so forth, was already in existence, I believe, the moon. As it goes on, Genesis 3, to explain it…But I believe, what was here, that the world, we was going to use it, and therefore…And it moved in; there was fog and mist all over the earth, making it dark. And God said, “Let there be light,” and the darkness faded away, and there was a cloudless sky.[2]
Now God said, “Let there be light.” And six thousand years it took this Eden to come into existence, and we are taught in the Scripture, “For one day upon the earth is…or—or—or is as a thousand years, with God; a thousand years upon the earth, is one day with God.” So it took six thousand years to make this earth, and to bring it into an Eden. But, you see, it was God, the great Master of all intelligence, and He—He had in His mind what He wanted to do.[3]
God, at the beginning, He said, “Let there be. Let there be. Let there be.” The world was just dark, in a chaos. Even when He said, “Let there be light,” there might have been hundreds of years before light ever sprung in. But when He spoke it, it has to come to pass. It must be that way. See? And He spoke His Word. Them seeds was beneath the water. When He dried off the earth, then the seeds come up. What He says must come to pass.[4]
Footnotes
- ↑ William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith : Christian Truth and Apologetics, Rev. ed. (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1994), 102.
- ↑ William Branham, 63-1229M - There Is A Man Here That Can Turn On The Light, para. 63
- ↑ William Branham, 65-1031M - Power Of Transformation, para. 55
- ↑ William Branham, 65-1205 - Things That Are To Be, para. 27