“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson[1]
In this quote famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how we are made from the materials forged in the furnaces of the cores of stars. How these materials were scattered across our universe forming the mass of the planets and in turn the life on them. How the conscious being we now define as “human” was manufactured of the dust that makes up the structure of the universe. In the second chapter of Genesis a verse reads:
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” – Genesis 2:7
Brian Cox another renowned physicist essentially reiterates Neil’s point and is quoted as saying “We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”[2] In his quote Brian not only states that we exist within the cosmos but that the cosmos simultaneously exists within us. In the book of Luke Jesus himself says that:
“The kingdom of God comes not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or lo there! For behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” – Luke 17:20
Brian says we are the cosmos, and our consciousness and life is a means to understand it, Jesus says that the “kingdom of God” exists within us and the whole entirety of the Bible essentially teaches that our purpose in life is to turn back to and know God. Jesus in the book of Matthew highlights the most important commandment as to:
“ ….love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”-Matthew 22:37
However to love anything, first one must know that something, therefore, to love “the Lord thy God” is to know “the Lord thy God.” To know the cosmos is the purpose of being the cosmos. Physicists may not preach in Churches or tell us to turn to Jesus but by sstudying the mechanics of creation they’ve come to the same conclusion that we are the “dust” of the universe bestowed with the “breath of life”, a conscious awareness. That our purpose here is to understand the creation and therefore the creator, to unlock our “atomic” connection with the universe, to find the “kingdom of God” within us and to ratify it with the external one.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/484586-the-atoms-of-our-bodies-are-traceable-to-stars-that
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