Did Jesus Witness the "Big Bang"?

[hamzzz]

What does the parable of the mustard seed mean? Had Jesus decribed the Big Bang 2000 years before modern man even thought of it?

Matthew 13:31-32 Jesus tells the parable of the mustard seed: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”

In other words - The "kingdom of heaven" is like a mustard seed, (The singularity, the tiny seed that was to grow into the universe). When the mustard seed was planted it began to grow rapidly and exploded in a "Big Bang". It continued to grow (expand) into the mature universe (God's "kingdom of heaven"). A place where life can exist when the right conditions prevail. There are probably millions of habitable planets where life can flourish (perch on its branches) in God's kingdom.

When Jesus described the God's "kingdom of heaven" in the parable of the mustard seed was he actually describing the the birth of the universe? The Big Bang started from the smallest of seeds (the singularity) and expanded (grew) outward into God's "kingdom of heaven" (the full feldged mature universe). He described this event 2000 years before anyone had the slightest inkling that an event such as this had occured - the birth of the universe. From this parable we can surmise that God's kingdom of heaven is actually the whole universe. It was something that Jesus knew about and told mankind but it took mankind 2000 years to figure out what this prophetic parable meant. How did Jesus know this?? Is this further proof of Jesus's divinity??

In Jesus's lifetime on earth mankind thought that the stars in the night sky were a giant bowl of lights flickering over the earth as the sun and moon orbited around the stationary Earth.

It took mankind 2000 years to invent the telescope and spectrograph and develop these instruments sufficiently to enable mankind to discover that there are actually islands of stars (galaxies) all speeding away from a central area (expanding outward). The scientists finally came up with the theory that looking back in time the galaxies must have at one time began in a very small area the size of a mustard seed and had exploded outward in a Big Bang that created the Kingdom of God - the universe. Donald Hamilton

 

[Selene]

What does the parable of the mustard seed mean? Had Jesus decribed the Big Bang 2000 years before modern man even thought of it?

Matthew 13:31-32 Jesus tells the parable of the mustard seed: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”

In other words - The "kingdom of heaven" is like a mustard seed, (The singularity, the tiny seed that was to grow into the universe). When the mustard seed was planted it began to grow rapidly and exploded in a "Big Bang". It continued to grow (expand) into the mature universe (God's "kingdom of heaven"). A place where life can exist when the right conditions prevail. There are probably millions of habitable planets where life can flourish (perch on its branches) in God's kingdom.

When Jesus described the God's "kingdom of heaven" in the parable of the mustard seed was he actually describing the the birth of the universe? The Big Bang started from the smallest of seeds (the singularity) and expanded (grew) outward into God's "kingdom of heaven" (the full feldged mature universe). He described this event 2000 years before anyone had the slightest inkling that an event such as this had occured - the birth of the universe. From this parable we can surmise that God's kingdom of heaven is actually the whole universe. It was something that Jesus knew about and told mankind but it took mankind 2000 years to figure out what this prophetic parable meant. How did Jesus know this?? Is this further proof of Jesus's divinity??

In Jesus's lifetime on earth mankind thought that the stars in the night sky were a giant bowl of lights flickering over the earth as the sun and moon orbited around the stationary Earth.

It took mankind 2000 years to invent the telescope and spectrograph and develop these instruments sufficiently to enable mankind to discover that there are actually islands of stars (galaxies) all speeding away from a central area (expanding outward). The scientists finally came up with the theory that looking back in time the galaxies must have at one time began in a very small area the size of a mustard seed and had exploded outward in a Big Bang that created the Kingdom of God - the universe. Donald Hamilton

I take this parable to mean faith because in the SAME Gospel, Matthew describes the mustard seed as faith in Matthew 17:19.

Matthew 17:19 Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

A mustard seed is very very small, and we are to grow in faith.

 

[aspen]

The parable was meant to shock His Jewish audience, who were used to hearing the Kingdom of God compared to majestic things like the cedars of Lebanon. Instead Jesus compared the Kingdom to a troublesome weed, which choked the farmer's fields and started from the smallest seed. Jesus often made ordinary things extraordinary, which is the opposite of what humans are likely to do.

Although creative and interesting to think about, I doubt the parable has anything to do with the Big Bang.

 

[Robbie]

All things were made by Him when God spoke... because He is God's Word...

 

[Rach1370]

Ah, yeah....the Big Bang. I honestly don't know how "scientists" can credibly say they believe in such a thing.
How is saying "There is a God, and He made everything", more of a stretch than "there was a huge cosmic explosion, and intelligent life emerged"?

The simple fact is that Science cannot give a proper explanation for creation. As Sir John Templeton said, "Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?"

Jesus not only witnessed creation, but He was the hand of it. No Big Bang...just God!!

 

[gregg]

i don't remember it but i believe i was there

 

[Templar81]

Jesus is the second eprson of the trinity, God is eternal and timeless, it say's in the Niceane Creed "begotten of the father before all worlds." If there was indeed a big bang, then yes of course Jesus along with God the father and God the Holy Spirit were there but not merely to witness it but as one to create it.