St. Augustine's Big Bang Theory

The perception of the relationship between and the Earth’s population has varied vastly throughout time, even within the same religion. While the earliest conceptions envision a God who embodies general human behavior, St. Augustine, one of the most influential thinkers throughout the history of Christianity, posits a much different view in his self-described letter to God Confessions. Prior to his days of devout piety, St. Augustine had subscribed to the faith of the Manichees, preventing him from viewing God as an immaterial force. Although Augustine uses strict rationalism to come to his Christian beliefs, he establishes a few qualities of God to explore one of the strongest influencing factors of his faith: the inability to qualitatively …show more content…
The Big Bang Theory as scientist can best understand it still cannot account for all of the human construct of time. Augustine indirectly illuminates a potential reason for the quandary, opining that God predates space-time and existence in infinite terms with no physical form. Augustine rationally arrives at the finding that “no physical entity existed before heaven and earth; at least if any such existed, you had made it without using a transient utterance, which could then be used as a basis for another transient utterance, declaring that heaven and earth be made” (226). Eventually, God created tangible and viewable dimensions, but Augustine theorizes there is a plane of divinity that knows no bounds. His exploration into the omnipotence of God force him towards an understanding that he will never actually be able to process his world at a mindset comparable to the degree of God. Although it appears this creates disconnect, Augustine internalizes his thoughts as fascination for a plan larger than any rumination of his for explaining the world, invoking a sense of wonder despite rather than