The Fool Says, ‘There is no God’
1 Corinthians 1:18-19 says, “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.’”
Indeed, how frustrating it must be. So bright, yet so dull – “fearfully and wonderfully made,” yet in stubborn denial of the Maker.
Romans 1:20 observes, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
Yet excuses they make; silly, unsupported, irrational excuses. According to Scripture, atheists like Hawking are fools. They are perishing. But even as they perish, they futilely grasp at multiverse straws, willfully blind to the loving Creator-Redeemer who reaches with nail-pierced hands to save them.
I feel sorry for Stephen Hawking. He’s had a very difficult life. Fifty years with Lou Gehrig’s disease, confined to a wheelchair and unable to move. A brilliant mind trapped in a failing body.
Pray for him.
Still, brilliant though he may be, Dr. Hawking is only human. “For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.” (1 Corinthians 1:25)
I would encourage Dr. Hawking – all God-deniers for that matter – that, in and through Jesus Christ, they can be made new in body, mind and soul.
They need only ask.
Because, for now at least, we do live in time and space.
And time is ticking.
Our next time is eternal. Our next space we now choose.
Choose wisely.
Image: Prof. Stephen Hawking; public domain