Even if every creature under heaven stopped in their tracks this very moment and worshipped God with everything they had, this would be an infinitesimal fraction of the worship God deserves. The true God has never been a god who said, “this is what I deserve, I demand that you give your life to me!” Rather, the true God says, “this is what you don’t deserve; I’m giving my life for you.” If you look at everything God has done and continues to do, it’s all about abandoning His rights, and giving rather than receiving. God lures with love rather than forces with ultimatums. God gives rather than takes. God asks rather than demands. God doesn’t command worship, He loves us with such intensity that it compels us to worship. If anyone ever had the power and the right to be a tyrannical dictator, it would be God. Even so, He is the one who kneels down to wash dirty feet, and who willingly takes our sin, pain, shame, and suffering in His own body. God abandoned all of His rights in exchange for the love of a lifetime. If God abandoned His rights, how much more should we, His creatures, abandon ours? God taught us by example that true love can only be experienced between two individuals when they abandon their rights. He took the first step and laid it all on the line. Have you?

Can something that weighs nothing push on something else? Light has no mass. A photon has zero rest mass, and it is never at rest anyway. Yet light pushes on everything it hits. Stand in bright sunshine and you are being pushed, very gently. On a square yard of mirror, sunlight presses about as hard as a single grain of sand resting on it. Far too small to feel, but real. How can a thing with no mass push at all? Because light carries momentum. A beam of light carries momentum equal to its energy divided by the speed of light. When light bounces off a mirror, it hands that momentum to the mirror. James Clerk Maxwell predicted this push in 1873. A Russian scientist, Pyotr Lebedev, measured it in the lab in 1900. Nature showed it long before that. Johannes Kepler noticed in the early 1600s that comet tails point away from the Sun, and he suggested sunlight was pushing them. He was partly right. Sunlight really does push a comet's dust tail away from the Sun. In 2010 Japan launched a spacecraft called IKAROS. Out in deep space it unfolded a sail about a tenth the thickness of a human hair and picked up speed from sunlight alone. No fuel burned. So here is something with no mass. It never slows down, and still moves the matter it touches. Ancient writers described God as light. They also said He is "upholding all things by the word of his power." Why would the most weightless thing in the universe be able to move matter at all? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉

Can you send a secret message that is impossible to spy on? Every time you buy something online, your card number is locked with a math key. That lock holds only because today's computers would take far too long to break it. A powerful enough computer in the future could, in principle, crack many of those locks. Light offers a different kind of lock. In quantum cryptography, the secret key is written into single photons, one particle of light at a time.  Here is the twist. You cannot measure a photon's quantum state without disturbing it. So if a spy tries to read the key on its way, the act of looking changes the photons. The two people sharing the key see the errors and throw that key away. The secret is not protected by a difficult math problem. It is protected by the laws of quantum physics as it pertains to photons of light.  In 2017 scientists used a Chinese satellite called Micius to share keys made of photons with stations on the ground. They used it to secure a video call between Beijing and Vienna. As I wrote in The Author of Light: "Any attempt to measure the key destroys the key." And: "a single light beam is capable of delivering an infinite amount of information whereby only the person or persons with the key have access to this information." God's mind is like that. No one can pry it open from the outside. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD." Isaiah 55:8 Paul wrote: "how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" Romans 11:33 But God is not hiding to keep us out. He opens what He has prepared to the people who love Him. In another letter Paul wrote: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." 1 Corinthians 2:9 This is one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book. More in the first reply. 👉👉👉

Does light experience time? This is one of 18 parallels between light and God that I explore in my book, The Author of Light 👉👉👉 amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…

Why can't a brighter light do what a dimmer one can? Here is a puzzle that stumped scientists around 1900. Shine light on a clean metal surface and it can knock electrons loose. This is called the photoelectric effect. Early electric eyes, like the ones that opened store doors, were built on it. But the details made no sense. Make a red light brighter and brighter, and for most metals not a single electron comes out. Switch to ultraviolet light, even a faint one, and electrons pop out right away. If light were only a smooth wave, a brighter wave should carry more energy and eventually shake the electrons free. It never did. In 1905 Einstein proposed the answer. Light arrives in tiny packets of energy, later called photons. Each photon's energy is set by its frequency, its color, not by how bright the beam is. One photon frees one electron, or it doesn't. A red photon simply doesn't carry enough energy, no matter how many of them you send. A single ultraviolet photon does. Brightness only changes how many photons arrive each second. Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for this work, not for relativity. The camera in your phone works on the same principle. Each pixel collects the photons that land on it and turns them into a tiny electric charge. Solar panels run on a close cousin of the effect. Here is the strange part. The same light that arrives in packets also spreads out and interferes with itself like a wave, as Thomas Young showed in 1801. Einstein admitted it plainly: "We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do." In my book I described the photon this way: "The photon is a visible and 'tangible' manifestation of something that is invisible." Something invisible, made known in a form we can touch. The same words are used about Jesus Christ, calling Him "the image of the invisible God." Why would the light that fills the universe be built as a paradox? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉

What is actually on your phone screen right now? Look closely with a magnifying glass and you will find only three colors of light. Red, green and blue. Tiny dots of each, millions of them. Every photo you have ever seen on that screen, every sunset, every face, every blue sky, is made from just those three colors mixed in different amounts. Turn all three up equally and you get white. Your eyes are built the same way. The retina has three kinds of color receptors, called cones. One is tuned toward red, one toward green, one toward blue. Your brain blends their three signals into every color you will ever see. Scientists call this additive color mixing. James Clerk Maxwell, the same man who wrote the equations of light, showed the first color photograph in 1861 using red, green and blue filters. As I wrote in The Author of Light: "There are literally an infinite number of colors along the color spectrum. Any one of these infinite colors can be made by mixing or adding together precisely three colors." And: "If you add all three primary colors together in equal combination, the result is pure white light." Three, perfectly combined, and the result is pure light. Jesus told His followers to baptize "in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Matthew 28:19 And John wrote: "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5 God is one God in three persons. In the book I put it this way: "this three-fold God, who is Spiritual Light, illuminates the world around us in an infinite number of spiritual colors of revelation." And this pattern isn't only out there in the light. It is wired into the eyes you are reading this with. This is one of 18 parallels between light and God in my book. If three colors of light can paint every picture you will ever see, what does that say about the One who made them? More in the first reply. 👉👉👉

The DNA from Your Body Stretches 46 Billion Miles!🧬✨ Did you know that each of the ~37 trillion cells in your body are packaging 2 meters (6.5 feet) of DNA? Your DNA, which is the complete set of instructions to make your body, is coiled up in a space smaller than a speck of dust. 🧬 If you unraveled all of the DNA in your body, it would stretch 74 trillion meters, or 46 Billion miles, which is long enough to wrap around the Earth 1.8 million times or zip to the Sun and back 500 times! 🚀 But how does all that DNA fit into a tiny cell nucleus? 🤔 It’s like stuffing a mile-long thread into a pea. Here’s how: DNA is super-compacted through a genius set of hierarchical folding structures. Your DNA is wrapped around proteins called histones, like thread around a spool, forming structures called nucleosomes. These nucleosomes coil further into a tight, spiral shape called chromatin, which then folds and loops into chromosomes. A legion of nano-protein machines organize and fold your DNA to fit inside your nucleus without getting tangled. This mind-boggling organization keeps your DNA compacted, protected, and ready to be transcribed or copied without tangling.

In this book, I demonstrate how light, space, matter, time, and energy possess a unique signature that lead us to the identity of our Creator. amazon.com/Author-Light-Reve…