First Cause-Bible Teachings from Former Elder sk to Active Jehovah's Witnesses

Ex 13:14
14 And God spoke to Moses, saying, I am THE BEING; and he said, Thus shall ye say to the children of Israel, THE BEING has sent me to you.
(Brenton's Septuagint Translation)

Think about the first cause of everything.

You can't count things from zero. The number of things that exist can be counted from one. As long as things exist, zero (nothing) doesn't exist. Therefore, the First Cause exists and everything starts from there.

Time is not the primary cause.

Only humans can think of causes from results, right?
Cats and dogs cannot do such things. (Conditioned reflexes are not inferences.) And not to mention, a stone does not have the ability to think like that.

Where did the power of human thought come from?
Is it from the providence and mystery of nature?

What is the providence or mystery of nature?
Is it the driving force that gives rise to intelligence, joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure?
If so, it is the source of personality.

Nothing can come from nothing. Existence can produce existence. Since personality is generated, there is a personal existence as the first cause.

Time does not produce anything.
Time is a product of thought, and is only a unit of measurement of quantity. Such an imaginary concept has no power to give birth to substance.

So the claim that hundreds of light years of time created man is no different than saying that trillions of tons or infinite mass created man, or that infinite square meters of space created man.

In other words, they have abandoned the method of reasoning to infinity and beyond, and have stopped thinking logically. Concepts such as infinity, time, space, and mass do not have the power to create heaven and earth, order, a wide variety of creatures within it, or human beings with personalities.

There is a First Cause of mystery and providence of nature. He has the personality as we do. Our ability to think, our personality, is a reflection of His divinity.

Ro 1:20-22
20 For his invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable; 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God nor did they thank him, but they became empty-headed in their reasonings and their unintelligent heart became darkened. 22 Although asserting they were wise, they became foolish . . .

Evolutionists can only offer acrobatic explanations (logical leaps) for the origin of life in an attempt to prove the unprovable.

They become incapable of reasoning, assuming that infinite time has given rise to wisdom, and they become so foolish that they worship nature.

The First Cause, who has the wisdom and power to create all things, is to be praised.

Ro 1:25
25 even those who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and venerated and rendered sacred service to the creation rather than the One who created, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Re 4:11
11 “You are worthy, YHWH, even our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created.”

Re 14:6-7
6 And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare as glad tidings to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people, 7 saying in a loud voice: “FEAR God and give him glory, because the hour of the judgment by him has arrived, and so worship the One who made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters.”

Ps 146:1-6
1 Praise Yah, YOU people!
Praise YHWH, O my soul.

2 I will praise YHWH during my lifetime.
I will make melody to my God as long as I am.

3 Do not put YOUR trust in nobles,
Nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs.

4 His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground;
In that day his thoughts do perish.

5 Happy is the one who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in YHWH his God,
6 The Maker of heaven and earth,
Of the sea, and of all that is in them,
The One keeping trueness to time indefinite,

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Nikola Tesla is better than Einstein. Tesla, who was erased from history, is the genius inventor of modern science and technology. It is not an exaggeration to say that modern science and technology are his achievements. Tesla believed in God.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. - Nikola Tesla