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The Big Bang Theory refers to the beginning of the Universe, originating from a singularity, a th... more The Big Bang Theory refers to the beginning of the Universe, originating from a singularity, a theory so far verified by the observational data. In accordance with this theory, the Universe, space and time have a beginning. Similar is the position of the Christian writers of the early Christian Church, who support the ex nihilo - ἐκ μὴ ὄντος (ek me ontos = from the ‘non-being’) creation of the world through the divine ‘energy’, with the two theories converging to the fact that space and time have a beginning. But according to the Father of the Eastern Church Basilius the Great and the Greek Christian philosopher, theologian and natural scientist John Philoponus, the ‘non-being’ does not represent ‘nothing’ but something beyond space and time, inaccessible to human senses. Parallel, though not coincident, in contemporary Cosmology is supported the hypothesis of the existence of the ‘false vacuum’, an imperceptible state before the Big Bang.
A major question that philosophers as well as modern scholars have considered over the years is whether our Universe has a beginning. Some Christian scholars considered that the Universe had a principle reigning exclusively in the divine will and envisaged its creation as a transition from the ‘non-being’ to being. In modern Astrophysics, space and time originate from the Big Bang. The principal aim of this work is to investigate the common points between the early Christian version of the creation of the Universe and modern Cosmology. Hence we will present the main scientific data supporting the Big Bang Theory. Also, will be discussed the first Christian version of the creation of the Cosmos from the ‘non-being’, being interpreted as a state inaccessible to human senses. At the end, there is a discussion about the false vacuum from which our visible Universe originated, according to the theory of inflation complementing Big Bang theory.

The Big Bang Theory refers to the beginning of the Universe, originating from a singularity, a th... more The Big Bang Theory refers to the beginning of the Universe, originating from a singularity, a theory so far verified by the observational data. In accordance with this theory, the Universe, space and time have a beginning. Similar is the position of the Christian writers of the early Christian Church, who support the ex nihilo - ἐκ μὴ ὄντος (ek me ontos = from the ‘non-being’) creation of the world through the divine ‘energy’, with the two theories converging to the fact that space and time have a beginning. But according to the Father of the Eastern Church Basilius the Great and the Greek Christian philosopher, theologian and natural scientist John Philoponus, the ‘non-being’ does not represent ‘nothing’ but something beyond space and time, inaccessible to human senses. Parallel, though not coincident, in contemporary Cosmology is supported the hypothesis of the existence of the ‘false vacuum’, an imperceptible state before the Big Bang.
A major question that philosophers as well as modern scholars have considered over the years is whether our Universe has a beginning. Some Christian scholars considered that the Universe had a principle reigning exclusively in the divine will and envisaged its creation as a transition from the ‘non-being’ to being. In modern Astrophysics, space and time originate from the Big Bang. The principal aim of this work is to investigate the common points between the early Christian version of the creation of the Universe and modern Cosmology. Hence we will present the main scientific data supporting the Big Bang Theory. Also, will be discussed the first Christian version of the creation of the Cosmos from the ‘non-being’, being interpreted as a state inaccessible to human senses. At the end, there is a discussion about the false vacuum from which our visible Universe originated, according to the theory of inflation complementing Big Bang theory.