How a Rubik’s Cube Explains the Good News of Jesus

By: Ben McEachen

World Record ‘speedcuber’ Charlie Eggins from Brisbane uses the famous puzzle to show how God solves our biggest problem ever

Three years ago, when Charlie Eggins was 13, he held the World Record for the fastest time solving a Rubik’s Cube – blindfolded.

Yes, blindfolded.

“That was a ‘crazy solve’,” Brisbane teen Charlie shares about setting that 12.10 seconds record.

Yes, 12:10 seconds.

On Charlie’s Swift Cubing channel on Youtube, you can check out heaps of cool videos of this young Australian lad whizzing through the famous puzzle.

Among the records, tutorials and ‘speedcuber’ jokes, Charlie dropped a video that instantly grabbed our attention.

“A year or two ago, my Dad and I realised that The Cube is a great illustration of the Gospel,” said Charlie from his Brisbane home, before heading off to school.

“Imagine a perfectly solved Rubik’s Cube. All the colours are matched up. It’s completely perfect.

“This is like when God created the world – everything was perfect. God said it was good. All right and perfect, like a solved Rubik’s cube.

“But then, humans sin, and that’s like grabbing The Cube and twisting and turning it and scrambling it.”

In only a few minutes, Charlie continued to explain how the problem of sin is overturned by Jesus.

Along the way, you can learn how there is a move you can make with a Rubik’s Cube that means it is impossible to solve.

“No matter what we try, we cannot solve it,” Charlie said.

“We need something else to come and fix us and make us good again and make the world good again.

“That thing is a person – God himself came down, in Jesus.

“Every time you see a Rubik’s Cube, you can remember the Gospel [of Jesus] and the immense love that God has for us.”