Dr. Stephen Hawking, an eternity loss through works alone? 543 - 3 - 8

I think I was in the eighth grade when I discovered Albert Einstein. Among his very insightful quotes are:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

A few years later in high school I read a book with the title “123 relativity.” I have searched for the book and cannot find any mention of it on the Internet. After 50 plus years, I may have the title wrong. What I do remember is that the special theory of relativity was rather straight forward, the general theory of relativity was more difficult to comprehend, and time is the fourth dimension.

In a least one of his teachings CM compared the four dimensions to Ephesians 3:18. In context, Ephesians 3:17-19, “17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”

I believe the expression “To know the mind of God” was coined by Sir Isaac Newton but another fruitless Internet search didn't confirm this. That said, did Einstein get a glimmer of the mind of God?

At the time of his death Einstein was still working on his The Unified Field Theory in which he was attempting to prove that electromagnetism and gravity were different manifestations of a single fundamental field.

With the optimism of a youth I thought someday I would finish his work and solve the unified field theory. Later I found that college level math and physics were far more complicated than in high school. Any thoughts of finishing Einstein's work evaporated in the reality of my limited intellect, limited intellect but still appreciative of great minds.

Now more than half a century later, the passing of another great mind, Stephen Hawking. Decades ago the unified field theory had been replaced by M-theory’. A theory Stephen Hawking hoped would fully explain the universe. I read that to understand the basic idea of M-theory, rather than describing the universe based on point like particles, it could be describe it in terms of tiny oscillating strings (tubes of energy). I’m way out of my league.

Stephen Hawking had a long history in theoretical physics pushing the envelope of knowledge as well as teaching and inspiriting generations of physicists. Although very severely handicapped, Dr. Hopkins never let this impede his work. Work, sadly that says it all.

Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God

"In the new work, The Grand Design, Professor Stephen Hawking argues that the Big Bang, rather than occurring following the intervention of a divine being, was inevitable due to the law of gravity.

In his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking had seemed to accept the role of God in the creation of the universe. But in the new text, co-written with American physicist Leonard Mlodinow, he said new theories showed a creator is "not necessary"."

[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/sep/02/stephen-hawking-big-bang-creator]

I was grieved by Stephen Hawking's atheism not only for him but because I had hope to someday meet both him and Albert Einstein, two brilliant men that I greatly admire. My prayer is that before his last breath, Stephen Hawking cried out to Jesus. Where Stephen Hawking spends eternity is up to God and I pray that he is merciful, and that Stephen Hawkins inherited the glorious body that was his only for the acknowledgement of the creator of the universe, the universe that he so admired. Ephesians 3:19, “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”

Idolatry, alive and promoted today 510-1 - 2 - 2.

Idolatry is a man-made religion worshipping the created rather than the Creator such as in image-worship, fetishism, the worship of trees, rivers, hills, stones, and more. The worship of trees, rivers, hills, stones is closely akin to nature worship, the worship of the sun, moon, and stars, as the supposed powers of nature. Much of this idolatry is found in the New Age, recycled Eastern pagan religion. In Romans chapter one Paul deals with the consequences of denying God as the Creator.

Not too far removed from the worship of pagan gods is today’s hero worship of sports figures. Some worship deceased ancestors in the belief that spirits continue to reside on earth after death still influencing the lives of the living. However, Hebrews 9:27, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”

Atheism has become a form of idolatry greatly advanced by best-selling authors such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. People have long argued whether Einstein believed in God, I'll leave that up to them. No God to Stephen Hawking, rather gravity, now where/ from whom did gravity come from?

“Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing in the manner described in Chapter 6. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

[Hawking, Stephen; Mlodinow, Leonard. The Grand Design]

God elegantly repudiates this in The Book of Job starting with chapter 38. Job 38:4, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”

As an aside and digging deeper, as I understand it, there is a difference between an "abomination" and the "abomination that make desolate." An abomination would be the false worship of idols rather than of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Idols would include anything/ anybody such as power, money, lust, and sexual perversion sought after rather than God. Abomination that make desolate would be where/ when these “idols” were brought into the “Holy of Holies” as with Antiochus IV. Sound familiar?

Nearly four years ago I wrote that "the abomination of desolation should serve as a warning to anyone/ any country into extreme false worship. In this country millions of babies are sacrificed on the altar of choice. Contemporary idols are greed, thirst for power, homosexuality and many perversions. Our children are being corrupted with non-Biblical teachings. Our churches are so far removed from the teachings of Jesus that they are becoming, IMO, an abomination for which God will hold them responsible."

Hopefully, the election of 2016 will bring our country closer to her Christian beginnings.

Hopefully, the election of 2016 will bring our country closer to its beginning.