Einstein's Wisdom

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.” (Revelation 4:11)

There are two theories upon which all modern physics rests. They are Einstein’s theory of general relativity (GR) and quantum field theory (QFT), the mathematics of which are beyond my IQ and are "foolishness before God"...

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He is the one who catches the wise in their craftiness; and again, the Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that they are useless. So then let no one boast in men.” (1 Corinthians 3:19-21) 

In layman’s terms GR is a theoretical framework that focuses on the big stuff like stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, etc. QFT focuses on the small stuff like sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, etc. Countless hours have been devoted by scientists in studying these theories looking for the so called Theory of Everything (ToE). As of today they have learned that GR and QFT both break down just before the beginning of the universe which they call the Big Bang.  Low IQ guys like me just believe that God “created all things” and that "the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God".

Many intelligent men think the idea that God created everything is a foolish myth.  Yet those wise men cannot explain creation apart from a Creator.  They should not "boast before God".

“God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God.” (1 Corinthians 1:27-29)

"He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." (Isaiah 25:8-9)

What or whom is your hope in? Mankind has generally depended on the wisdom of men and women. Solomon was the wisest man who had ever lived in his day...yet he found that the wisdom and reason of men cannot change the fact that both good and wicked men have the same fate...death. Utopian ideas of wise men have all been failures. Whether it has been based on democracy or autocracy...philosophy or theology...capitalism or statism.

So what is the alternative to trusting in the reason and wisdom of mankind?

FAITH in God it seems to me.

Faith that there is a good God is a sure foundation for hope. I find in the Bible that He loves mankind and that because of this love, and His Grace, mankind cannot miss His goal of eventual perfection in an age to come, regardless of how much we fail in this age. And this faith in God can sustain us in the midst of a faithless world.