Yes,
dear Prof Dr N. Sethi. Thank you for your
question. Here’s my personal thinking:
I
did mean it when I said that when Jesus told His mother "My hour has not
yet come" (John 2:1-5) at the wedding at Cana where He performed His first
miracle by converting barrels of water onto organic- based wine, Jesus meant (without
telling us), it was still too early for Him to show He was a divine being who
came to Earth in human form to give life.
When
I read this verse it has very deep, deep meaning to me. I did not elaborate earlier
because I too have to wait till I have a better understanding.
At
the moment I am not at home to write on my home PC, and I am using my smart
phone to type which is very difficult to write in much more details as I wish.
But
very briefly, here’s what I have earlier
explained elsewhere.
Composition
of Wine:
Wine
is just the chemical product of not just two life giving, but living
substances, namely grapes and yeast through fermentation. Wine is NOT alive,
but is the biochemical product of these TWO, just like God and Jesus together as
ONE living Being
Wine
is produced by one way biochemical reaction via fermentation
This
reaction is ONE WAY that CANNOT be reversed to give back the living yeast and
the vine that produces the grapes with glucose in them.
It
will require an awesome divine power to reverse this chemistry. But Jesus did
it, but not immediately. He waited till His time has come probably He waited
for that “living energy” to be pumped into His body by His Father (God) in
heaven to begin His ministry on Earth.
So
Jesus waited till His time comes to reverse this irreversible chemical reaction.
That was why Jesus told His mother "My hour has not yet come" Can we now
not understand why He said that to His mother?
For
this reason at that moment Jesus merely changed water into wine as a precursor
of life what He was going to do much later to Lazarus.
It
was much later that Jesus showed His true life-giving miracles on Lazarus
Chemical
Reaction Reversing from Death to Life:
This
time round He reversed a totally irreversible
chemistry of a dead person to the functioning chemistry of a living person (the
Chemistry of Life) who was Lazarus as His first living miracles by raising him from the dead
This
time, His time has come by doing the opposite of what He did when He first
performed His first miracle by converting water into wine.
To
me this is awful, simple awful. It is awesome, simply awesome where even chemistry
and the laws of chemistry governing their reactions have to obey Jesus. Even
the fixed laws have to obey and give way at the command of Jesus.
Jesus
simply reversed all the break down
chemicals of decomposition that may have already seeped into the soil where
Lazarus laid in his tomb. He caused them
to move and gather together in one place once again to be assembled into
Lazarus body.
The
account on how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead is given in John 11:38-44.
This
to me was simply awesome, just far too mind blogging at least for me to
understand. How did all the chemicals of
decomposition come together once again probably already seeped into the soil
Not
just that. Jesus reversed their original breakdown chemical reactions and
became living biomolecules once again inside Lazarus body.
It was clearly the case of from the Chemistry
of Death into the Chemistry of Life. Even
chemistry and its irreversible laws of chemical reactions have to obey Jesus as
He commanded
This
is really beyond me.
Not
just that alone. He was able to multiple food many, many times over to feed
some 5.000 people who followed Him (Matthew 14:13-21).
How did
Jesus managed to convert five loaves of
bread and two fish the disciples have into so much food to feed some 5,000
people.
Not just
being able to multiple five loaves of bread to feed the multitude of people,
but a lot of leftovers too. ”picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that
were left over.”
Food
was Once Living:
We
know that food can only come from a living thing. All food MUST originally be living
and have life in them first. That is so sure, until killed and sacrificed as
food before the food of life can be passed on to the next living creature in
order to give it continuing life. That is more than for sure.
We
have to admit that food must first come from a living thing such as fish, and
cereal grains such wheat plants to give us bread. Food cannot arise from
non-living substances such as sand, cement, concrete, bricks, soil, water and
air. We cannot eat bricks and sand to give us life expressed in the chemistry
of life. That is for sure!
Those
living things must sacrifice their lives first to provide us food such as fish
and our daily bread. This is exactly how Jesus has to sacrifice His life in
order to give us eternal life.
In other words no living things, be he humans
or animals can eat non-living things like rock, cement, soil or bricks…etc. It
MUST once-upon-a-time have life in them in order for it to pass on this “spark
of life” on to the next living creature like a flame from a lamp passing on its flame to
the next unlit lamp. .and on and on until ALL the unlit lamps in a row are ablaze
with light, warmth and light…all representing LIFE
But
where did this spark of life first came from to ablaze the entire planet with
all sorts of life and living things?
There
is no other alternative but to give this credit completely and totally to an Intelligent
Being who has that Eternal Flame of Life.
This
scenario to my thinking is parallel to Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution how
the first life on Planet Earth radiated
into so many kinds of life forms and into millions of species on Earth.
In
short, life has to be given and passed on from life-to-life. We have no choice
trying to think of other alternatives.
I
think we have just no choice but to give our COMPLETE and TOTAL Credit to God
and to Jesus whom God sent to Earth to show us the truth which we as scientists
have been blind to because to me, we may
have profound knowledge in Science but definitely NOT in wisdom
We
can never acquire wisdom by learning in a university, but wisdom unlike
knowledge can only be given to us spiritually by seeking it through
daily prayers just like King Solomon asked in his dream
Just
once again to echo what I said. We have
to admit that food must first come from a living thing such as fish, and cereal
grains such wheat plants to give us bread. Food cannot arise from non-living
substances such as sand, cement, concrete, bricks, soil, water and air.
Those
living things must sacrifice their lives first to provide us food such as fish
and our daily bread. This is exactly how Jesus has to sacrifice His life in
order to give us eternal life. We cannot deny this, and we have no other ways
to explain or to choose.
Just
remember, God is a Spirit. He is not a material Being we are able to see,
touch, measure or to investigate.
Science
is merely a study of matter and energy, and their properties. Science cannot
detect or study something outside our physical dimension.
We
belong to the physical world and God is at the other end in a Spiritual World
and dimension where we cannot enter, and
neither beings from a spiritual world enter into our physical dimension to tell
us their eternal existence, whereas our life-span is just an infinitesimal 120
years at most by way of strength, 70 or 80 (Psalm 90:10)
Our
physical body has a living soul which is enshrined as one entity, and when we
die a physical death the soul separates from our physical body and enters into
the spiritual dimension and remains there throughout all eternity.
The
spiritual soul does NOT die. We die because we are mere physical being, and we
return to the soil from where we first came.
Adam
was made from the soil of the earth, but it was NOT living until God breathed
into his nostrils and Adam became the first living soul (dead physical body
plus a soul = a living entity)
“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) KJV
I
have never heard this preached by anyone in my entire 80 years in life, so I
like to share my personal thought with you.
Thank
you for reading, more importantly to ponder over this yourself.
Lim
Ju Boo
