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Bigger Than The Universe.

What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him? (Deuteronomy 4:7)


          The observable universe is supposedly 91 billion light years in diameter. That means it supposedly take 91 billion light years for the light from the most distant stars to reach the earth. I'm not entirely sure how they can claim that this, since the universe is (according to old earth folks) less than 15 billion years old. That means the light from those most distant objects won't reach us for another  seventy six billion (76,000,000,000) years. Even accepting the idea that the universe used to be smaller, it doesn't make sense. 
            It's not really accurate to say God is bigger, because bigness is a physical characteristic. Technically, God has no size, but God is "bigger" than the universe and smaller than a singularity. In fact, I suspect He can easily stand within a singularly as we stand in the universe. He is not enclosed within the universe nor it in Him. It is not part of Him, nor He of it. He is transcendent and immanent, both "out there" and "right here." 
       The fact that God is transcendent means that problems within the universe aren't problems within God. The fact that God is imminent means that He can be with us as we walk through those problems. Were He less transcendent, He would not be God. Were He less immanent, we would not be.


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