“Stephen Hawking, the brilliant atheist is dead!” The headline could have read, “Stephen Hawking, the fool is dead!” For it is the fool that has said in his heart there is no God. I wonder how many people, especially young naive, impressionable, credulous, people Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking convinced that there is no God? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Hawking was given seventy-six years to get it right. He never did. Confined to a wheelchair for many decades, he had plenty of time to think, to reason, to investigate and ponder, but he died an atheist.
Maybe Jesus Christ did have it right when He said “NO MAN (that would include Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan) can come to me except it be granted them by God my Father.” (See John 6:65). Maybe Job was inspired when he said, “Can you by searching find out God?” (See Job 11:7). And the prophet Isaiah most certainly had it right when he said, “Truly, you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior!” (See Isaiah 45:15).
But why does God do this? After all, if He really and truly desires that NONE perish and that ALL come to repentance, why hide Himself. Why make it so difficult, if not impossible to find Him? Why remain invisible?
Though it is true “the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork,” that alone does not put one in touch with God, nor assure the seeker that God desires to fellowship with him, or identify God. Is God Jehovah or Vishnu? Allah or Zeus?
Those of you who do believe in God, do you realize how blessed and fortunate you are? You have been granted spiritual enlightenment and understanding denied the overwhelming majority of all mankind!!!! People better and wiser than you have been left to struggle in the darkness, living out their short lifespans and dying never having an inkling God even exists, not a glimmer of divine light and understanding ever given them even once at any time.
But the great, supremely wise Creator has a plan. And, believe it or not that plan includes Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan. It includes every last one of those impressionable, gullible youths who embraced atheism thanks to the best-selling books penned by the two fools Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan.
To be continued….
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley