What's sad is how a man who contributed so much to science and individual perseverance can't be appreciated in his death. For someone so wise in the physical world, he did lack spiritual knowledge of our Saviour Jesus Christ. If that is justification for belittling, overlooking, joking, etc... Stephen Hawking, then you're ignoring teachings from the same book Stephen Hawking didn't believe in. Why not celebrate his life and accomplishments instead of "Oh, poor soul is burning in hell now!!"? We get it, some people think he's rotting in hell with Gandhi. Does it make their contribution to the world any less significant? Do I believe everything Hawking said? Absolutely not, but nevertheless, he had a gift from God when it came to understanding many of God's physical laws that I always admired. He was a personal hero of mine...
I'm not even an emotional person, but hearing of his death stung... Of course the uncertainty of his afterlife causes me more grief. Here is the thing we all need to remember though: WE ARE NOT GOD. WE ARE INCAPABLE OF JUDGING PERFECTLY. I get it... some of you feel SO convicted in your human understanding of God's word that you feel compelled and at liberty to doom someone to eternal hellfire. Cool, this is the internet, where we all feel like our opinions really matter and need to be heard. What I think is disgusting is when someone claims someone who disagrees with them goes against God and the bible, claiming to "only be going off what the bible says". IT'S YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE... to someone else, they interpret it ENTIRELY differently. It's such a copout and a strawman argument to make that because someone disagrees with your interpretation of the bible, that the other person "throws it out" or "doesn't believe in the bible". Make all the claims about your super duper important beliefs and opinions... don't tell someone else that disagrees with you that they are an anti-christ, that they ignore parts of the bible, or any other personal judgement for disagreeing with your interpretation... you don't know the person's heart and even if you did, are incapable of judging perfectly like our Heavenly Father.
It seems many people on here crave or desire the power to cast someone to hell. I am UTTERLY THANKFUL to God that I am not assigned the responsibility to judge someone's eternity. I know I can't do it perfectly... nor do I WANT to do it. It takes a pretty mentally sick person to want this type of power knowing you're imperfect. God is perfect, our understanding of His teachings/doctrine is NOT.
Having said this, thank you Stephen Hawking for everything you've done for the world and for me personally. You're the reason why I chose one of my majors... In every video where God/creationism was brought up, you showed how to disagree with people (Christians) but do so civilly and respectfully saying why you disagree. You emulated Christlike behavior, yet you didn't even believe in Christ... and in that sense, I thank you for showing me how to act more Christlike.
I'm not even an emotional person, but hearing of his death stung... Of course the uncertainty of his afterlife causes me more grief. Here is the thing we all need to remember though: WE ARE NOT GOD. WE ARE INCAPABLE OF JUDGING PERFECTLY. I get it... some of you feel SO convicted in your human understanding of God's word that you feel compelled and at liberty to doom someone to eternal hellfire. Cool, this is the internet, where we all feel like our opinions really matter and need to be heard. What I think is disgusting is when someone claims someone who disagrees with them goes against God and the bible, claiming to "only be going off what the bible says". IT'S YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE... to someone else, they interpret it ENTIRELY differently. It's such a copout and a strawman argument to make that because someone disagrees with your interpretation of the bible, that the other person "throws it out" or "doesn't believe in the bible". Make all the claims about your super duper important beliefs and opinions... don't tell someone else that disagrees with you that they are an anti-christ, that they ignore parts of the bible, or any other personal judgement for disagreeing with your interpretation... you don't know the person's heart and even if you did, are incapable of judging perfectly like our Heavenly Father.
It seems many people on here crave or desire the power to cast someone to hell. I am UTTERLY THANKFUL to God that I am not assigned the responsibility to judge someone's eternity. I know I can't do it perfectly... nor do I WANT to do it. It takes a pretty mentally sick person to want this type of power knowing you're imperfect. God is perfect, our understanding of His teachings/doctrine is NOT.
Having said this, thank you Stephen Hawking for everything you've done for the world and for me personally. You're the reason why I chose one of my majors... In every video where God/creationism was brought up, you showed how to disagree with people (Christians) but do so civilly and respectfully saying why you disagree. You emulated Christlike behavior, yet you didn't even believe in Christ... and in that sense, I thank you for showing me how to act more Christlike.