Where is your place?

And when the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to Him, "They have no wine."
And Jesus said to her, "Woman, what do I have to do with you? My hour has not yet come."
His mother said to the servants, "Whatever He says to you, do it." John 2:3-5 NAS

 

The Son, then, could change His intent and spoil nothing: so, I say, can the Father;
for the Son does nothing but what He sees His Father do. George MacDonald*

When modern day cosmologists describe the beginning, they introduce an idea that is called the Big Bang Theory. The theory is certainly creative but, ultimately, needs to be rejected by Christians in the name of Jesus. The most important problem with the theory is that it does not leave any room in the universe. Those who are true to the theory have to make this claim: EVERYTHING that has happened and is happening since the Bang is being made up as the Bang goes on. If the "universe" is expanding, it is because the BANG is inventing it as it goes. nanosecond after nanosecond after nanosecond -- a discrete state universe is inventing itself::existing and unexisting simultaneously. There is certainly no room for meaning.

When modern day calvinists regurgitate the foolish imagination of their 16th century leader, they find themselves in concert with the philosophies of evolutionists and nihilistic cosmologists. What they describe as "God" establishes a discrete state universe. In this "place," there is no room for any deviation or decision. Every atom is constantly performing exactly according to its pre-programmed function. No human decision happens unless it was already prescribed. Jesus is nothing more than a 2 dimensional video projection on the wall of history. Pre-packaged humans are automatically actualized in salvation while sub-humans are offered heaven by the Holy Spirit and dumped into hell when the rug is pulled out from under them. You calvinists need to "search the Institutes" and find the blasphemies of Calvin so you can run away from them...reject them in the name of Jesus.

When ordinary people, who want to understand God, come to the Bible, they are not given a closed-loop sense of existence that does not include them. Jesus (Jesus is God) made room for His mother's practical wishes, even though He was, for the moment, captivated by the heavenly vision of sharing wine with His bride, the church (John 17 and Matthew 26:29 and Revelation 19:7-9). Jesus made room for outsiders from Israel...centurions and Greeks and Samaritans and a Syro-Phoenician woman...because they asked Him to make room for them. Jesus made room for every human at the cross because He and His Father had discussed the need for making room there before they ever made the world (universe) and the people in it (1 Peter 1:20). Jesus made room for humans, even though they are sinners (Romans 5:8).

Sinner.
Come to Jesus.
Come to the Cross.

*Quoted by C.S. Lewis in George MacDonald: an anthology. Macmillan, 1947.