You might like to meet the great One who will never win any Nobel Prize. But first, why not read His book—it's called The BibleThe books (Greek, "biblia" ) that are acknowledged as canonical (authoritative) by the early Christian Church. It includes both the books of the ancient Hebrew prophets and those of the apostolic witnesses to Jesus Christ., and His name is Jesus Christ.
Recently US President Barack Obama was awarded the much vaunted Nobel Peace prize. Liberal and conservative commentators in America and Europe were either appalled by or applauded the award.
For example, Lithuania's daily Lietuvos Rytas wrote: "To put it in a nutshell: it is unclear just which successes Obama is being honored for, above all when we compare him with other laureates … it's very strange to award someone the Nobel Peace Prize just because they're more popular than George W. Bush. Many call Bush the worst president of all times. But is just being better than the worst enough to win the Peace Prize? ... In addition it is regrettable that for years now the decision makers in Oslo have given the Prize to people further and further on the left of the political spectrum."
Wow—makes you wonder what they really think!
Now consider a great person who wasn't nominated and would not win anyway in any of Nobel's fields of Peace, Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Economics or Literature.
The non-Nobel-nominee is a great peacemaker. Yet unlike even our best intentioned want-to-be peacemakers, this person actually knows the way to peace!
He is religious—typically a quality of a great peacemaker. In fact He's the Founder of a great religion—but in today's apologetic culture it's the wrong religion—not politically correct, shall we say.
He's a great healer and understands the path to good health like no one else but will never win the Nobel Medicine award.
His contribution to literature is nothing less than inspiring. His work has been quoted more than any other, and His book is a bestseller every year—but he'll never get the Nobel Literature prize.
He's the greatest economist the world has ever seen. He developed a economic system brilliant in its basic simplicity and amazing in how, if followed, it would completely prevent recessions and depressions. Apparently the Nobel committee didn't notice.
What about Chemistry and Physics—not a problem. Our non-nominee is the master of both fields of study. In fact the best that all the other Nobel Physics and Chemistry winners could ever do is merely study what this master scientist already did.
He's a leader of messianic proportions. That quality seems to have been valued in some Peace Prize awards recently. Problem: our never-to-be Nobel winner is not just a "messiah-like” leader—He is the true MessiahA Hebrew word meaning literally "anointed one," synonymous with the Greek word christos, translated Christ. "In ancient Israel both persons and things consecrated to sacred purposes were anointed by having oil poured over them ... The Israelites did not think of crowning a king but of anointing him when he was enthroned ... [The future Messiah] is to destroy the world powers in an act of judgment, deliver Israel from her enemies, and restore her as a nation. The Messiah is the King of this future kingdom to whose political and religious domination the other nations will yield. His mission is the redemption of Israel and His dominion is universal. This is the clear picture of the Messiah in practically all of the OT passages which refer to Him" (The Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, "Messiah").!
Go figure.
You might like to meet the great One who will never win any Nobel Prize. But first, why not read His book—it's called The BibleThe books (Greek, "biblia" ) that are acknowledged as canonical (authoritative) by the early Christian Church. It includes both the books of the ancient Hebrew prophets and those of the apostolic witnesses to Jesus Christ., and His name is Jesus Christ.
For GN Magazine, I'm Randy Stiver
