Power

Power

The most powerful thing created by man is a nuclear bomb, as far as I know. The energy released by nuclear weapons is measured in tons, kilotons (thousands of tons), or megatons (millions of tons) of TNT (dynamite).

The 13 kiloton atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II reduced to ashes an area of 5 square miles. Its mushroom cloud rose 56,000 feet into the atmosphere.

Compare that to the act of God in a volcano. When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, hundreds of square miles were reduced to wasteland, and its volcanic ash column rose to 80,000 feet. The force for the blast was the equivalent of about one thousand atomic bombs.

Well, you might say, we’ve developed far more powerful bombs. The largest tested released an energy approximately 4 times the energy released at Mount St. Helens.

Yes, but, Mount St. Helens is a small volcano! Mount Pinatubo's eruption in June 1991 was 10 times larger than that of Mount St. Helens. Its cloud of smoke and ash rose to 100,000 feet.

Consider the tremendous energy Earth receives from the sun. Yet Earth receives only about one two-billionth of the sun's total energy.

Giant stars have luminosities between 10 and 1,000 times that of the sun. Supergiants can have brightness up to hundreds of thousands times the sun.

“The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word,” Hebrews 1:3 NIV.

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile,” Romans 1:16.

“Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light,” Colossians 1:11-12

Image thanks to NASA/European Space Agency