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The Scriptures say of Christ: “He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Hebrews 1:3). “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:3). In light of these two verses, we can learn something about how God created the universe by recalling the miracle of the Lord Jesus changing water into wine: “When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.’ His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, ‘Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.’ So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now’” (John 2:3–10). First, the wine was good, just as God pronounced the work of His creation good. Second, Christ used no props, gestures, or commands to the water; He did not even comment about the water or wine. After the jars were filled, Christ just told the servants to take some out. The execution of this miracle was, from a human standpoint, about as low-key as you can get. And this confirms our earlier observations about how effortlessly God created the universe; God does not need any natural processes to do His work. He does not need any tools, automated machinery, automated “natural laws,” or any other kind of help. God speaks and something then exists. God does not even need to speak, just as our Lord Jesus had no need to speak to the water. When God made the stars, He named them all after He made them, but the text does not say, “Let there be stars.”
One conclusion from this is that Framework Hypotheses proponents who insist on using present-day natural law to limit or confine God’s creative activity are just plain wrong. They disbelieve parts of the creation narrative on the basis of present-day physical or natural impossibility or a supposed need for billions of years for something to happen. Knowingly or not, they blasphemously call God a liar.
It is somewhat interesting to notice that wine contains carbon atoms, which water does not. That means that to turn water into wine by ordinary physical processes requires nuclear reactions. Depending on assumptions, these nuclear reactions could have yielded a few megatons of energy. That wedding party would have been one loud party indeed, had the Lord Jesus not have been our Creator and God.
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