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124th 127th page Secrets and Sons and Daughters of God

These discussions commemorate the passing of Professor Stephen William Hawking, age 76, on ‘pi day’ 2018, late of Cambridge, England. They are extracts of a letter sent in 2003 to the Professor reviewing portions of his book, A Brief History of Time.

John Choate of Connecticut

January, 2003

Stephen Hawking, Professor

c/o Centre for Mathematical Sciences

University of Cambridge

Wilberforce Road

Cambridge CB30WA England

<s.w.hawking@damtp.cam.ac.uk

A Brief History of Time, 1988 Bantam Books, Dell

Professor Hawking,

I don’t know how the Lord chose the rules for the initial configuration of the world, but He has given some indication as to why he follows rules which man can understand. Amos alsoadvised (3:4) “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” And who are the prophets to whom these secrets are revealed? Circa 1470 B.C. (Numbers 11:29) Joshua told Moses of two camp members, upon whom the spirit of prophesy rested (verse 26), and Joshua asked Moses to forbid them from prophesying. “And Moses said unto [Joshua] . . . would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them.” So the Lord wants all of the Lord’s people to be prophets. Why?

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The scriptures have about 6 dozen references to sons and daughters of God. David, circa 1047 B.C., wrote (Psalm 82:6) “Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the most High.” Hosea, circa 740 B.C., wrote (1:10) “Ye are the sons of the living God.”

Saint John, circa 70 A.D., wrote (1:12) “as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God . . .” Paul, circa 50 A.D., is quoted (Acts 17:28-29) “For we are also his offspring, Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, . . .”

Paul, is also quoted (2 Corinthians 6:17-18) “. . . ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord, Almighty.” And to the Philippians (2:15) “the sons of God.” And to the Hebrews (12:7; 12:5-9) God dealeth with you “as with sons”. And to Moses, (Pearl of Great Price 1:13) “I am a son of God.” And Moses wrote of Enoch (Pearl of Great Price 7:1, 13) “many have believed and become the sons of God,” and Enoch spake the “word of the Lord” and the earth trembled, mountains fled, rivers turned out of their course, lions roared, “so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of the language which God had given him.”

Given that men are sons of God, that he reveals secrets to his prophets, and His desire is that we become prophets, and He wants to give power to us, it should be reasonable that He shares his secrets and knowledge with us. Perhaps knowledge of the boundary conditions at the beginning of time are also attributes of Godhood.

You observe (p. 124) the proposal of the anthropic principle and weak evolution. [Note 2018 ”The anthropic principle is a philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it. *** that coincidences are part of the universe’s very structure.  Wikipedia”  ”The Anthropic Principle was proposed in Poland in 1973, *** commemorating Copernicus’s 500th birthday. It was proposed by Brandon Carter, sfsu.edu.”]  I made the note to myself the principle is nonsense. You also ask “why is the universe smooth?” Either because it is random, or because of design. I favor design, with a designer.

You observe (p. 127) that the expansion after the big bang theory was on the order of 1*10^30 in less than a second, which is faster than light. Either the expansion was not so fast, or matter can travel faster than the known speed of light. Perhaps the ability to travel faster than light would be an act of Godhood.

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     You refer (p. 140) to insignificant creatures like ourselves. But not if we are children of God, co-eternal, and independent. You observe (p. 141) the creator, organizer. See the previous discussion about God as organizer from chaos. You ask what place is there for a or the creator? To organize chaos. To combine matter. To make the Universe Smooth, and pretty, and improved.

Professor Hawking’s mother was Scottish. His grandfather was James Walker born Glasgow and son of Archibald Walker Jr. and Janet Audrey Margaret Morris. Archibald was the son of Archibald Walker Sr. and Isobel McIntyre Ewing. Janet was the daughter of William John Morris and Margaret McGregor.

Hawking’s mother’s mother was Elisabeth Agnes “Nancy” Stevenson Law, born Glasgow, and daughter of Andrew Law and Agnes Stevenson. Agnes was the daughter of Robert Stevenson who was married 6 August 1852 in Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland to Isabella Hyslop.

Stephen William Hawking, born 8 January, 1942 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, U.K. Deceased: 14 March, 2018 ‘pi day, 3.14,’ in Cambridge, England, U.K.

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