Stephen Hawking Has Died

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Vatican astronomer comments on Stephen Hawking in the Catholic Herald
Vatican astronomer, Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, who has studied both physics and philosophy, told Catholic News Service in 2010 that “the ‘god’ that Stephen Hawking doesn’t believe in is one I don’t believe in either.”

“God is not just another force in the universe, alongside gravity or electricity,” he added. “God is the reason why existence itself exists. God is the reason why space and time and the laws of nature can be present for the forces to operate that Stephen Hawking is talking about.”
 
I like that. Good way of putting it. Leave it to a Jesuit to be able to deal with the scientists…
 
When I have read an atheist’s description of ‘god’ I often found myself realizing that I didn’t believe in that ‘god’ either. I was glad to read that Brother Consolmagno felt the same way.

And I do prefer the concept that “God is the reason why existence itself exists”. Rather than defining Him in an anthropomorphic manner.

Go with Love, Go with God!
 
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Spyridon:
If I had to guess, I’d say his chance of salvation is very narrow.
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We don’t know that. We don’t know anything about the man aside from what he chose to make public.

We also don’t know how many people prayed daily for the salvation of his soul.

These sort of statements are best avoided. This is the epitome of “see to the plank in your own eye”.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.
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His first wife (and the mother of his three children) probably has since by all accounts she’s a very devout Christian.
 
I have read through many of the posts, if not all of them. This thread is like the OK Corral of opinions about Hawking.

I didn’t bother with Hawking because I heard of his atheist views. As stated in Psalm 1:1:

Blessed is the man who does not walk
in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the way* of sinners,
nor sit in company with scoffers.

I understand the :“scoffers” to be the atheists, and taking this admonition (not ‘ammunition’) of scripture, I didn’t really have a strong interest in his work.

By the way, I found “A Brief History of Time” online in a pdf file. I don’t know if it’s the whole book. I jumped to his concluding remarks, where he is banging against God. I’ll give to Hawking what is Hawking’s and to God what is God’s.
 
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