Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from “An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith” by Dave Hunt

What Hebrews:11:3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
See All... [“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear” (Hebrews:11:3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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“But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word [by which they were created] are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men" (2 Peter:3:7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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The English translation, “kept in store” and “in Him all things consist” (Colossians:1:17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
See All...) have the connotation in the Greek of being “held together.” Peter goes on to describe the destruction of the universe” as being “dissolved” in a “fervent heat” that will burn up the very elements. The English word, “dissolved,” is translated from the Greek luo, which in its forty-six usages in the New Testament denotes a loosing, or letting go, of something being held together—a scientifically accurate description of the loosing of the force binding the nucleus of the atom together.

All matter is made of atoms, which consist of negatively charged electrons orbiting around a nucleus composed of positively charged protons and neutrally charged neutrons. The electrons are of course held in orbit by the positively charged nucleus—but what holds the nucleus together, since its protons ought to repel one another?

Physicists hypothesize a mysterious “strong force,” or “cosmic glue,” which overcomes the electromagnetic repulsion that otherwise would push the protons apart and destroy the atom. Without this mysterious force, the very elements of the entire universe would dissolve in one giant ball of fire—exactly as Peter describes.