{"id":44799,"date":"2009-12-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/true-god-particle\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:54:36","slug":"true-god-particle","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/true-god-particle\/","title":{"rendered":"The True God Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"

In July 2009, Parade<\/em> magazine ran an article entitled, "The Race for the Secret of the Universe." It focused on Fermilab, a four-mile-round particle accelerator that resides west of Chicago. The scientists gathered there are searching for the ever-elusive Higgs boson, also known as "the God particle."<\/p>\n\n

The article explains more: "Physicists believe that this special subatomic particle allows all of the other particles in the universe to have mass and come together to form, well, basically everything that is around us. [According to one Fermilab theorist], without so-called God particles …. 'atoms would have no integrity, so there would be no chemical bonding, no stable structures—no liquids or solids—and, of course, no physicists and no reporters.'"<\/p>\n\n

While it's certainly possible that God built such a tiny particle into the deepest part of his creation, it isn't the God particle. The God particle that holds all things together—actually, the God person—is Jesus Christ. Consider what Paul writes in Ephesians 1:10:<\/a> "[Christ] bring[s] unity to all things in heaven and on earth." Consider also Colossians 1:16:<\/a> "for in [Christ] all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him."<\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[411],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3573,3575,3582,3583,3587,3711,3713,3751,4063,4098,4389,4463,4526,4585,5212],"tax_ctp_topics":[],"class_list":["post-44799","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-christ","tax_ctp_tags-christ-anointed-one","tax_ctp_tags-christ-one-with-the-father","tax_ctp_tags-christ-our-righteousness","tax_ctp_tags-christ-the-word","tax_ctp_tags-creation","tax_ctp_tags-creator","tax_ctp_tags-deity-of-christ","tax_ctp_tags-glory-of-christ","tax_ctp_tags-greatness-of-christ","tax_ctp_tags-lordship-of-christ","tax_ctp_tags-messiah","tax_ctp_tags-nature","tax_ctp_tags-palm-sunday","tax_ctp_tags-uniqueness-of-christ"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"\nThe True God Particle - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/true-god-particle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The True God Particle - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In July 2009, Parade magazine ran an article entitled, "The Race for the Secret of the Universe." 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