The Death Of Neil Armstrong - A Look At His Religous Views And Beliefs

Neil Armstrong died this past week in Cincinnati on August 25th. He was born August 5, 1930. He will be best remembered as the first man to walk on the moon. We will never forget those famous words "That's one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind". In fact, I can still remember lying on the floor in front of the television watching the whole amazing event.
Armstrong was the quintessential "all American boy". He graduated from our nation's finest institutions, Purdue, M.I.T. and USC. He was a pilot for the U.S. Navy in the Korean conflict and an Eagle Scout. Mr. Armstrong had a life-long passion for Scouting and even had a Scout badge in his possession when he walked on the moon.
While Neil Armstrong did many wonderful things and made the world a better place for a lot of people he may have neglected the most important matter in all the world...a belief in the Saviour, Jesus Christ. Armstrong defined his religous beliefs as those belonging to Deism, he said that he was a Deist. Here is a definition of Deism by gotanswers.com...

Deism is essentially the view that God exists, but that He is not directly involved in the world. Deism pictures God as the great “clockmaker” who created the clock, wound it up, and let it go. A deist believes that God exists and created the world, but does not interfere with His creation. Deists deny the Trinity, the inspiration of the Bible, the deity of Christ, miracles, and any supernatural act of redemption or salvation. Deism pictures God as ambivalent, uncaring, and uninvolved. Thomas Jefferson was a famous deist, referring often in his writings to “Providence.”

If indeed Armstrong actually held to these beliefs then he left this world totally unprepared for the next. His superior training and eduction qualified him for success on Earth but in Eternity there is only one action that has value and that is personal faith in Christ. Evidently Armstrong was a Deist because his own mother had serious doubts about his Christian faith. She was a devout Christian and was very concerned about his lack of Christian convictions. 

 

 "[Neil Armstrong's mother] wrote on October 27, 1969, to a Methodist minister in Iowa ... “but when he was a senior in high school, and even more in college, he began wondering about the truth of Jesus Christ. I felt sure he was praying less…. [Today] he is not teaching his own two fine sons about Jesus Christ. This fact causes a million swords to be pierced through my heart constantly.”"

 

Those are sad words aren't they? A "million swords" pierced through her heart. Oh that we had more mothers like her that have a heavy heart for the salvation of their children. We need moms and dads who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to lead their children to believe on the Saviour! 

There is little evidence to suggest that Neil Armstrong ever came to the same conclusion that Peter arrived at in Matthew 16 of the Holy Bible...

 

  ¹³ When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? ¹⁴ And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
¹⁵ He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
¹⁶ And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
¹⁷ And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Jesus is the Christ, the Savior, the Son of the living God. Only those who trust in Jesus as Savior will be re-united with their believing mother, father, sister, brother, wife, children and friends. Reader, you may have great life accomplishments and a grand resume but if you don't have Jesus you will have lost "all" at the day of your death.  Come to Jesus, believe on His work on the cross and His resurrection from the dead. Do it now!