Smart Heroes

 For some time now, I’ve been talking about “Heroes of the Faith”: those remarkable men, women and children who by their trust in the Lord left a legacy that blesses us all to this day.


While looking for more “faith giants” to report on, I came across one of Tony’s Creation magazines and found an article about Albert Einstein. Unfortunately, he was not what we would call a “hero of the faith”, since he seems to have abandoned God as he grew older. But I was surprised to find that Einstein had heroes of his own, three of them, in fact. Each was known for his advances in science and each merited a picture on Albert’s study wall.


Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is best-known for his discoveries about gravity and the subsequent motions of the planets and stars.


Michael Farady (1791-1867) had a lot to do with our understanding of electricity, and,


James Maxwell (1831-1879) is responsible for a unified theory of electricity, magnetism and light.


The things these three accomplished in their lifetimes formed the basis for Einstein’s groundbreaking development of the whole “relativity” thing (Remember E = mc2 ?), and he freely acknowledged their work, hanging their pictures up as a daily reminder.


But what surprised me is the fact that all three of these men were also known as being committed Christians. Newton wrote more on theology than he did on science. Faraday was a member of the Church of Scotland’s fundamentalist group known as the Sandemanians, and Maxwell interacted with some of the best theological minds of his day.


Read the biographies of these three remarkable scientists and you’ll see that everything they did was based on absolute belief in the promises of God and His revealed Word. None of their discoveries would have come about if they had not placed their faith and assumptions in Him.


Unwittingly, Einstein placed his faith in the accomplishments of Newton, Faraday and Maxwell, but failed to see the God Who made it all possible. I’m really grateful today for the dedicated men and women who were bold enough to invest their minds in the truth of God’s Word and make no apologies for it.


True Heroes of the Faith, that’s for sure.


Marsha

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