THE END OF GOD

By Osondu Ahirirka
“The end of God is near”, This is the claim of one Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo in a piece by the same title, published on Page 14 of Weekly Insight of Sunday, July 13, 2012. Two pregnant hypothesis as untested as they are, constitute the soul of his excitement at announcing that the so called “God Particle” has finally been discovered by Scientists.

For ages scientists, scholars, philosophers and even some theologians have been busy trying to prove that either God does not exist, or that, if He ever existed, He is dead. According to Okonkwo, since Scientists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research Laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, have discovered the God Particle, he enthuses that; “If Scientists had not found the God particle, everything we know about the universe (1 presume, he is referring to the Biblical account of creation in Genesis 1) would have been false. Now that they did, everything we knew about the universe had been false. It is a brand new word”.

Even more impudently, he adds, a conclusion, “The discovery of the God particle, the very basic building block of the universe, firmly connects us to the Big Bang Theory. The Universe is no longer the question, and God is no longer the answer. Scientists are set to unmask God. It is the end of God as we know it. PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I’M RIGHT”.

It is his last challenge, which I render in italics that I want to take up. He is right to say God has come to an end. At least, for him and his type; who say there is no God, I won’t waste time faulting their logic. You may ask me what the God Particle or the Big Bang Theory is? Again, that I don’t know, nor do I desire to inquire. Not every knowledge is expedient. All I can volunteer, is that, the God Particle and the Big Bang Theory are; at their best, mere revisionist updates of the failed and much derided Darwinian Theory of Evolution. All these are attempts by men to sideline and expel God from reckoning while trying to rationalize or explain how this wonderful universe came about. I continue to wish them luck, where more “illustrious” atheists before them failed.

Folks’, I only delight to share with you, a message I received long ago from a columnist, with the Daily Sun Newspapers, Onuoha Ukeh, as an appropriate addendum to the end of God. It is my hope that this message titled; God can never be mocked,” will reassure you and dismiss from your imaginations, the missteps of those, who, attempting to play God, try to remove him from our curriculum. The message reads: “It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7): “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Here are examples of some men and women who mocked God.

“John Lennon: some years before (in 1966), during his interview with an American magazine, he said: “Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple. Today, we (members of the then popular pop music band, The Beatles) are more famous than Him”. Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times. The Beatles disintegrated.

“Tancredo Neves (One time President of Brazil) “During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his Party, not even God would remove him from the Presidency. Sure, he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President and died.

“Cauza (a bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet), during a show in Cane (Rio de Janeiro), while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said: “God, that’s for you”. He died at the age of 32 of AIDS in a horrible manner. AFTER THE CONSTRUCTION OF TITANIC, A REPORTER ASKED THE MAN WHO BUILT IT HOW SAFE THE TITANIC WOULD BE. WITH AN IRONIC TONE, HE SAID; “NOT EVEN GOD CAN SINK IT.” THE RESULT? THE GREAT SHIP SANK ON ITS FIRST VOYAGE FROM SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND TO NEW YORK AND IT TOOK ONLY TWO HOURS FORTY MINUTES. ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED OF THE 2,000 PASSENGERS ABOARD WERE LOST.

“Marilyn Monroe: she was visited by Rev. Billy Graham during a presentation of a show. He said the spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the preacher had to say, she said: “I don’t need your Jesus”. A week later, she was found dead in her apartment. “Bon Scott; the ex-vocalist of the AC/DC: on one of his 1979 songs, he sang: “Don’t stop me, I’m going down all the way, down the highway to hell”. On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead. He had been choked by his own vomit. Back in 2005 in Champinas, Brazil, a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend. The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and holding her hands, she said to the daughter, who was already seated in the car: “My daughter, go with God and may he protect you”. She responded: “Only if he (God), travels in the boot, cause inside here is already full.” Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident. Everybody died. It could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the boot was intact. The police said there was no way the boot could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the boot was a crate of eggs, none was broken:

Friends, only a fool says in his heart, that, there is no God. Flee from such men. His Grace, The Most Rev. Christian Ekong, Archbishop/ National President of The Lutheran Church Of Nigeria concedes that, the story of creation as revealed to us in the Bible Book of Genesis may sound unreasonable, too simplistic and even illogical. You may disbelieve of the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, the story of his betrayal, crucifixion, burial and resurrection. These may sound idiotic and foolish to the ninth degree. But that’s okay. I only leave you with the counsel of Archbishop Ekong, that, we rather, all become liars and let God alone be true. Therein lies our redemption. As the scriptures say in 1 Corinthian 1:8, “the story of the cross is foolishness to them that believe not but to us that believe, it is the power of God to save us from the clutches of eternal damnation. We certainly are in the end times, where false teachers and false doctrines are on the prowl. But never will God come to an end. He is the beginning and the End, the First and the Last, the Alpha and the Omega and in him, we (indeed all things) live, move and have their beings. Nobody, nor any knowledge invented by man can kill God. Scientists may clone humans, go to space, raise genetically modified babies, perform daring surgeries and transplants, all these cannot cancel God out.