Breitbart is reporting on the upcoming auction of a one and a half page letter written by Albert Einstein two years before his death in which he said that there is nothing chosen about the Jewish people....and that the "word of God" is nothing special....and that all religions are superstition. He stated before he died as did the famous atheist Christopher Hitchens before he died in 2011.....that there is nothing that is going to change his mind. Is it not irony that Hitchens had the name 'Christ' within his own first name?
Isaac Newton is often chosen on surveys as to having been the greatest scientist ever. He essentially left his secular vocation to further pursue his Christian vocation. Twenty-five or so years ago I did a very primitive study on the men (and women) whose discoveries led to the power plant that I worked in. Most of those I researched were believers in God and Christians....but science will not determine this debate.
The extraordinary intelligence of men like Einstein and Newton is a wonderful thing but that intelligence is not in itself the determination of what he will conclude about God....for every man has a heart as well as a mind....and the heart of man is not subject to the mind.
This ongoing debate between science being the dominant evidence....and God's Word being the dominant evidence.....has resulted in modern times in a compromise. Man does not have to take everything that science says to be true....nor does he have to take everything that God's Word says to be true. Therefore we can say that we believe in God....and are confident that God....(should He really exist)....will accept us into whatever is to come. We therefore do not have to be 'born again'....or any such thing....that this is our intellectual prerogative....we simply have to be good....in our own eyes!
Man has a predetermined numbers of years on this earth that are limited today to a little over a century at most. Einstein had his belief at the end of his 76 years....Hitchens had his belief at the end of his 62 years....Newton had his belief at the end of his 84 years. I have mine....and you have yours. You may argue your case....but only for so long. I implore you to at least acknowledge that you have consciously chosen a middle path. That confident as you may be....you have departed from a literal interpretation on what God's Word says about being redeemed by Christ....and have knowingly gone against the testimony of what every Christian stalwart in the faith has said for the past two thousand years.
Friends....every one of us who not only trusts in Jesus Christ....but also in what His Word says to us.....and every one of those Christian stalwarts in the faith that came before us....and who are now with Christ....were at one time where you are. You can choose the path which Albert Einstein chose. He may have been almost incalculably smarter than you and me....but he has as you and me will in the future....encountered the omniscient and omnipotent intellect that created all of man's intellect....even his own. Or you can choose a middle path....that none of those whose names you may have heard proclaimed from time to time in church had taken. You most definitely will not be alone if it is company that you want....maybe you are bringing your children with you....in effect making the choice for them....even though you think that you are only letting them make their own choice....but you will not find Jesus Christ at the end of your journey....other than as a judge.
Isaac Newton is often chosen on surveys as to having been the greatest scientist ever. He essentially left his secular vocation to further pursue his Christian vocation. Twenty-five or so years ago I did a very primitive study on the men (and women) whose discoveries led to the power plant that I worked in. Most of those I researched were believers in God and Christians....but science will not determine this debate.
The extraordinary intelligence of men like Einstein and Newton is a wonderful thing but that intelligence is not in itself the determination of what he will conclude about God....for every man has a heart as well as a mind....and the heart of man is not subject to the mind.
This ongoing debate between science being the dominant evidence....and God's Word being the dominant evidence.....has resulted in modern times in a compromise. Man does not have to take everything that science says to be true....nor does he have to take everything that God's Word says to be true. Therefore we can say that we believe in God....and are confident that God....(should He really exist)....will accept us into whatever is to come. We therefore do not have to be 'born again'....or any such thing....that this is our intellectual prerogative....we simply have to be good....in our own eyes!
Man has a predetermined numbers of years on this earth that are limited today to a little over a century at most. Einstein had his belief at the end of his 76 years....Hitchens had his belief at the end of his 62 years....Newton had his belief at the end of his 84 years. I have mine....and you have yours. You may argue your case....but only for so long. I implore you to at least acknowledge that you have consciously chosen a middle path. That confident as you may be....you have departed from a literal interpretation on what God's Word says about being redeemed by Christ....and have knowingly gone against the testimony of what every Christian stalwart in the faith has said for the past two thousand years.
Friends....every one of us who not only trusts in Jesus Christ....but also in what His Word says to us.....and every one of those Christian stalwarts in the faith that came before us....and who are now with Christ....were at one time where you are. You can choose the path which Albert Einstein chose. He may have been almost incalculably smarter than you and me....but he has as you and me will in the future....encountered the omniscient and omnipotent intellect that created all of man's intellect....even his own. Or you can choose a middle path....that none of those whose names you may have heard proclaimed from time to time in church had taken. You most definitely will not be alone if it is company that you want....maybe you are bringing your children with you....in effect making the choice for them....even though you think that you are only letting them make their own choice....but you will not find Jesus Christ at the end of your journey....other than as a judge.
