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Somebody once asked me
who God was. Not that this person didn’t know who God was from his religious
and biblical studies: he wanted me to explain to him in simple layman’s terms
how great God is.
We all know that God is
the all-seeing, benevolent Supreme Being. But what is he really like? Can he be
seen and what would he look like? Can he be described? And if the answer to
this is ‘yes’ how?
So here it is in simple
graphic detail:
You are a person; one
simple person. The current population of Nigeria is estimated to be about 160
million. That is to say you’re one of a hundred and sixty million inhabitants
of Nigeria.
Nigeria
is one of the 54 countries that make up the African continent with about 1.2
billion inhabitants. So this translates to you being one of the 1.2 billion
people that live in Africa.
Now the
Planet Earth has five continents (that are further sub-divided into countries)
– Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America and South America – and the
current estimated population of the world is estimated to be 7.5 billion souls.
Again you are one person out of seven and a half billion people that live on
the Planet Earth and that’s not counting all the other billions of life forms
such as animals, insects, birds, plants and microbes.
Our Solar System with all the planets and the sun ( - and you and me and
everything else) is just one of more
than a 100 billion systems in our galaxy which is roughly 100,000 light years
across.
Now scientists
and astronomers currently agree that there are over 200 billion galaxies in our
known universe with each galaxy supporting hundreds of billions of solar
systems all complete with their own planets orbiting their own suns.
To recap
you’re one of the seven and a half billion people that lives on the Planet
Earth which is one of the eight(- or 9) planets in our solar system which is
one of the 100 billion solar systems in our galaxy which is one of the more
than 200 billion galaxies in our known universe.
Now the guy who controls and oversees this entire, incredible awesome
structure of people, countries, planets, solar systems, galaxies and all the
inhabitants within, whether they be human or who-knows-what, is called God.
Think about that next time you use his name in vain or disobey his
commandments!
Who is God was written by Tony Ogunlowo.Follow me on Twitter: @Archangel641 or visit
http://www.archangel641.blogspot.co.uk