The voice of God functions like a binding agent that holds all existence together, keeping it structured and in harmony. It is like the skeleton of the universe—a system of interconnected pieces that sustain everything that exists so that it does not collapse into chaos. God creates through words: everything we see and know was made by His command, and it is by His Word that the cosmos remains standing. His voice is an invisible force, similar to gravity, that keeps everything in balance.
God spoke, and it came into being. This same capacity to create through words also exists in us when we have been reconciled and have begun the process of transformation. Jesus taught this when He said: “Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.” However, even though we possess this ability, our attachment to the material world limits us, because it manifests fear. And fear prevents us from moving freely and confidently in the Spirit.
The magnificent Spirit of God does not operate in fear. Fear simply does not exist in His nature. We do possess a natural fear that helps us react in survival situations as a form of physical protection, but that is not the fear I am referring to. Matter stands in the way, preventing us from manifesting the creative mastery that Jesus spoke of.
To better understand how the Word of God sustains everything, I would like to compare it to a scientific concept: the Higgs Boson, also known as “the God particle.” I do not intend to give a physics lesson—I am not an expert, nor do I want to bore those who are not interested in the subject—but this analogy can help us grasp how spirit and matter are intertwined, and how science and spirituality can complement one another.
Physicist Peter Higgs proposed that there exists a field that permeates all space, and that the Higgs Boson is an elementary particle that gives mass to other particles in the universe. Mass is what gives form and substance to everything we see—from a tree to a star, including ourselves. Without mass, the universe would be entirely different; there would be no matter, no life, not even the most basic structures. This discovery is crucial for understanding how the cosmos is organized.
However, from a spiritual perspective, this “particle” operates under a divine command. According to the Scriptures, everything that exists has a limit. We are told that “all the stars of the heavens will be dissolved, the sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all the stars will fall like leaves from a vine.” This event, which appears to describe the disintegration of the universe, will give way to “a new heaven and a new earth,” where everything will be transformed.
When that moment arrives, the Higgs Boson will cease to function. This will not be a random event, but the fulfillment of a divine plan. This change will be accompanied by the transformation of our earthly being into a spiritual body, similar to the one we had before the transgression. This is the destiny to which God calls us: to return to being spiritual beings as we were in the beginning—beings of light. According to the Scriptures, those who choose to enter into covenant with God will be preserved from the disintegration of the cosmos and transformed without passing through death.
The connection between the Higgs Boson and the Word of God shows us how the visible and the invisible are intertwined. Everything we see is sustained by a divine Word. When we understand this truth, we realize that the universe is not merely a physical place, but also an invitation to seek our eternal purpose and to rediscover our true essence as spiritual beings.
As an additional note, I believe it is worth making space in this discussion to address the seven days of creation—a passage that has been criticized and dismissed by skeptics and scientists who have not known God. Personally, I do not care whether creation occurred in seven days, seventy years, or seven thousand years. That does not change the reality that God exists. The ancient biblical writers were as limited by time as we are, but God is not. Neither they nor we are capable of fully comprehending God’s time, because He is eternal and we are not. Our physical bodies limit the understanding that the Spirit could otherwise give us.
God has no beginning and no end. One could say that He is the continuum of time, or better yet, that His time has no limits. In the spiritual world, the concept of time simply does not exist. It is in the material world that time takes on meaning, because here we die. God established a temporal limit for material existence. To Adam He said: “I have ordained upon this earth days and years, and you and your descendants shall stand upon it until the days and years are fulfilled, when the words that created you and those that brought you out of the garden after your transgression are spoken again—yes, when the Word is preserved once more, after five and a half days have passed and are fulfilled.”
When Adam heard these words, he could not understand their meaning. He believed that those five and a half days were literally five and a half days until the end of the world. How could he have understood otherwise, having just been expelled from Eden? He did not know time, nor death. All he could grasp was that God was promising to save him from punishment and take him back home. And like Adam, those who transmitted these memories orally also did not fully understand the concept of time. Even today, we do not fully understand it.
When I read the creation accounts in the Scriptures and in the Book of Adam and Eve, it becomes clear to me that the writers were trying to explain, using their best available tools, something that exceeded human understanding. For example, in Genesis we are told that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, but that the earth was formless and empty, with darkness over the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovering over the waters.
This description becomes clearer when compared to the account of the punishment of the fallen angel in the Book of Adam and Eve, where God says: “When the good angel was obedient to Me, a brilliant light rested upon him and his hosts. But when he transgressed My command, I deprived him of that light, and he became darkness. And when he fell from heaven to the earth, that darkness came with him.” In other words, the darkness that covered the earth came from the fallen angels. The Kingdom of God, by contrast, is a place of absolute light. There is no darkness there, nor any need for luminaries, because the light that illuminates everything is God Himself.
Yet Genesis tells us that God created light on the first day and saw that it was good, and then on the fourth day He created the luminaries—the sun and the moon—to separate day from night. Taken literally, this presents an apparent inconsistency: how could there be light on the first day if the luminaries were not created until the fourth? This is where we must remember that God is light. He did not create light as something separate from Himself; light is His essence.
Moreover, based on what we know about the universe, there is no light without luminous sources such as the sun or the stars, or the moon reflecting sunlight. Without these luminaries, we would live in complete darkness. It therefore seems clear that the writers of Genesis did their best to describe something they did not fully understand, using a chronological framework that reflected their limited perspective of time.
The Book of Adam and Eve, on the other hand, does not attempt to describe creation through a seven-day chronology. It only mentions that the garden was placed on the third day of creation. This leads me to believe that the Genesis account should not be interpreted as a literal description of the time of creation, but rather as a way of conveying God’s creative power from a human perspective.
Ultimately, time belongs to us, not to God. As Scripture says, “A thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it has passed, or like a watch in the night.” We cannot measure God’s time or the time of His creation, because He exists beyond those limitations.
Returning to the main point, we understand that the discovery of the Higgs Boson explains how the universe remains cohesive through an elementary particle whose function is to give form and support to everything that exists. This is valid within the purely physical order. However, in the spiritual order, it is the command of God that allows this particle to exist and fulfill its purpose. The skeptic might say, “Yes, but there is no physical or tangible proof of what you are claiming.” I am not trying to prove God’s existence with this argument, but rather to show how His divine order sustains everything we see, by comparing it to this elementary particle that makes material existence possible.
We can observe that there is a physical component that is sustained by a spiritual component: the command of God. There is no physical explanation for the origin of this particle that forms everything we know, because its origin is not physical, but spiritual. Here we encounter the same insurmountable barrier found in the argument that the universe originated from an explosion of a particle called the “inflaton.” If we ask where that particle came from or what caused the explosion, the answer is that it came from nothing. But nothing, by definition, is nonexistence. To accept that argument, we would have to abandon reason and logic. At that point, science and religion meet at a common ground that religious institutions call faith.
Religion is a human creation—often without understanding what spirituality truly means. Only God, the Creator, has the power to bring something out of nothing. Yet within Him, so do we. There is someone we know from history who was able to produce a gold coin from the mouth of a fish, and who repeatedly insisted that He was human—the Son of Man—in order to inspire and encourage others to believe in their own spiritual capacities.
God and the spiritual world are not visible to the human eye because they are not made of matter, but that does not mean they do not exist. A simple example is germs: we know they exist, even though we cannot see them without special instruments. Similarly, the Spirit of God is sometimes compared to the wind to help us visualize it. No one can see the wind, but we feel it on our skin and see its effects when it moves the leaves of the trees. In the same way, although the Spirit of God is invisible, we can see His works in everything around us.
The scientist analyzes the forest tree by tree, while the spiritual person can see the forest as a whole before focusing on the details. Understanding the details is interesting and valuable, but even more important is understanding the Whole—which is God. When we lose ourselves in the details of the universe searching for answers, we forget the most important question: who originated it? Many seek the “how” and not the “who,” because accepting the existence of a “who” would mean acknowledging a being who is superior and powerful. For some, accepting this is an obstacle their earthly ego cannot overcome, and they end up trapped in a cycle of questions that will never lead them to the spiritual origin.
The hard work of scientists is admirable, but without faith—understood as belief in spiritual powers—they will never find the Genesis of the universe, because the Originator is not matter, but spirit. Those who know God understand that everything is maintained and sustained by the command and power of His Word. This is not physical; it is spiritual.