Nigeria, Feb. 4 -- Jesus wept three times in the Bible. One was at the death of Lazarus. Jesus showed his displeasure with death as a heritage that came from the failure of Adam and Eve on their mission on Earth. Jesus also wept at the inability of us, his creation, to believe Him and avoid dying in sin. Poor Jesus. He must have overestimated what we could do. The third time Jesus wept was when He pictured the destruction that would befall Jerusalem on judgment day for again failing to live up to Jesus' expectations.

Since then, Jesus has not wept again despite humanity's continuing misbehavior since He left. Jesus has not wept since because of His hope in scientists' work in opening up the heavens one layer after another.

On October 1...