God's POWER unto salvation; Hawking's question
Here's an interesting train of thought that emphasizes the awesome power of God's salvation.
An ant is in some degree greater than any other insect. Proverbs 6:6, 30:25
A lion is in some degree greater than any other beast. Proverbs 30:30
An angel is some degree greater than any other man. Psalm 8:5
God is infinitely greater than His creation and all His creatures, including angels and men.
The gulf that exists between a man and God is always underestimated by us.
Now think about the following a little.
How hard would it be to make an ant out of an insect?
How hard would it be to make a beast out of an insect?
How hard would it be to make a lion out of an insect?
How hard would it be to make a man out of an insect?
How hard would it be to make an angel out of an insect?
You know what would the ultimate "test" of God's power be?***
God's towering greatness over man is proportional to the difficulty of making man partaker of the divine nature. You see the more inconceivably removed God's greatness is from man, the more inconceivably difficult it is for man to partake of God. In fact, compared to God, man is as good as an inanimate object. Romans 9:21
And since, according to the Bible, the greatest (though not only) difference between God's glory and man's, is holiness, (Romans 3:23) then you can start pondering what a feat it was for Jesus Christ the Son of God to bring us God's salvation by making us sons of God (John 1:12) and partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)
*** Incidently and in answer to Hawking's child-like taunt of a question in "a brief history of time"
"Can God make a rock that He Himself cannot move?"
I answer
1) "yes". In fact, I know the name of the rock. It's "JESUS" (Romans 9:33, 1 Corinthians 10:4, see also Hebrews 12:26-27)
2) that Rock is also God Himself (John 8:58; Colossians 1:15, 2:9; Hebrews 1:3)
3) God, in fact, cannot do some things (2 Timothy 2:13, Titus 1:2)
4) but how does (3) change the fact that He is over all and so does whatsoever He wants in the hosts of heaven and earth and none can question Him (Daniel 4:35) and that He will judge the whole earth (1 Chronicles 16:33) according to the Gospel of Jesus His Son (Romans 2:16) ?
Try looking smart telling the Judge that He can't do something while He sentences you to hellfire and there's none to save neither in heaven nor on earth nor below the earth, because you have rejected the Chief Corner-Stone (1 Peter 2:6) , the Rock against whom the gates of Hell shall not (and did not) prevail (Matthew 16:18) ; Jesus Christ.
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD Proverbs 21:30 |
