Physicist Stephen Hawking died in March, without completing his final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. His family and friends used his notes fo finish the book which was release on Tuesday. His final writings provide his answers to a host of major issues – including his disbelief in God.
“Do I have faith?” he writes. “We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is that there is no God. No one created the universe, and no one directs our fate.”
He adds: “When we die, we return to dust.”
The Bible agrees with this statement…in part. “Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return”.
Sure, our bodies aren’t going to last forever. But there’s that little word…Forever. Hebrews 9:27 tells us, “…it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”.
For the believer in Jesus, there is no fear of judgment for as Paul told the Corinthian church, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ”.
Jesus said, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.He that believes on him is not condemned.” But then comes the bad news, “he that believes not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God”.
