How Did This World Come To Be?

During the course of this book, my goal is to help you realize: 1. Your innate relationship with God; 2. The power you have and can have to achieve anything you desire; and 3. What the secrets are, to harness this power. In fact, when you find out how easy it is, you will probably ask yourself why you haven't found this before. To do this, I need to establish one concept, and that is, "How did we come to be."

OK, so let's begin with that well known scripture, "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth." (Gen. 1:1) And, as the story goes, God also created the lights, which is the sun, moon and stars. He created all plant life, animal life, marine life and the birds of the air. You probably say, "Yeah, I know that God created the Heavens and the Earth. So, what's new?" First, let's just explore this phrase, to see what all it involves.

"God created the Heavens...". Let's address this, for a moment. We may know the heavens as our solar system, which consists of our sun, this earth and the other eight planets ( I'd rather not give up on Pluto, I don't care what the scientists, say.) Did you know it takes over four days for man to fly to the moon? Did you know it took the Mars' spacecraft over three months, to travel from earth to Mars? It takes several years for our spacecraft to leave our solar system and there is only one star in our solar system...the sun.

We hear space scientists refer to distance in terms of 'light years'. That would be the 'speed of light', 286,000 miles per second. So, a light year consists of the distance covered, traveling at 286,000 miles per second, for one year. And these scientists speak about traveling many, many light years to the next galaxy, thousands of light years to the next star. And to the end of the Universe? Our scientists don't even know where the end of the Universe is.

We know there are millions, no, billions upon billions of stars in the universe, that we can identify. How many more stars are in the parts of the Universe that we can't see? Through multiple revelations and translations, for example, came a description of a universe far, far exceeding the astrophysics of the 1830s, a cosmos containing “worlds without number” and advising us further that the “inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters [of] God” (Moses 1:33; D&C 76:24).
Anciently, the vastness of Abraham’s eventual posterity was compared to the sand of the sea, a staggering promise (see Gen. 22:17). The Restoration’s revelations and translations accommodate a vast universe; thus it is no surprise to us that scientists’ latest estimate of the number of stars in the universe is approximately 70 sextillion—“more stars in the sky,” scientists say, “than there are grains of sand in every beach and desert on Earth” (Allison M. Heinrichs, “The Stellar Census: 70 Sextillion,” Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2003; see also Carl Sagan, Cosmos [1980], 196). Let's just say that we cannot comprehend the vastness of God's creation, with the human mind's eye. Let's move on, because we could never come up with a feasible answer to the amount of space God created in our Universe, let alone all of the other Universes He created besides this one. Now, isn't that pretty amazing? And all of this was done for the benefit of man.