I have here the book A brief history of time  by Stephen Hawking before me. I borrowed it from the library.

So far I have only read a bit at the beginning and a bit at the end of the book, and I noticed four things:

1. We are asking: “Why are we living on this earth?”

Ecclesiastes 12:13 says, “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.”  Read also Hebrews 11:6!

2. We are asking: “Why is there an earth at all?”

Hebrews 11:3 says, “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”

3. To find the answer to those two questions “would be the ultimate triumph of human reason,” I am told in the book.

Here is a quote by Blaise Pascal: “The supreme achievement of reason is to bring us to see that there is a limit to reason.”

4. I read also in the book that if we would know the two answers, “we would know the mind of God.”

Paul is writing in First Corinthians 2:16, “‘For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.”

I will now begin to read the book!