July 21, 2010 | 
Author Ten months ago, I conceived of the idea for this blog site. Ten years ago I completed the first nineteen years of my autobiography. While writing my life story, I found that I could write. So, I established a goal of writing a book about the logic of Christianity. This blog is one step in that journey. And if I write the last line of the manuscript from my death bed, that will be okay with me, if that is what God ordains. I have been conducting research for ten years. Why get in a hurry now. I believe that the spiritual principles taught by Jesus Christ catalyze the logic that sustains our objective human analysis. No matter how deep we look into matters of science, the best we can do is guess.
Quantum mechanics was built on the concepts of a friend of Eintein’s named Max Planck. Einstein did not really like the idea of calling his photon quanta. He also did not care a great deal for the concept of furthering his science of relativity on the concept of probabilities. But it happened, anyway. Today, we still do not know why gravity is such a weak force compared to electromagnetism, nor do we know much about dark energy or dark matter. But as a race of humans, using the greatest minds of our day to represent us, we must take responsibility for the whole bunch, when we relent to the teachings of science. Although our scientists feel they are closer than ever to finding a theory of everything, we are still dealing in terms of probabilities. We seem to lack the wisdom to realize that the objectivity of the scientific method leaves us wanting at the end of every experiment. We think that if we cannot see it, detect it, or measure it objectively, it isn’t real. No matter what IT is. That is not what Jesus taught us.
Jesus taught us about faith, hope and love. He taught us that what he said to us was far more important than the body that He occupied. He taught us that as the Christ, he was accountable to his source, not to his intellect. Nevertheless, many agnostic atheists see this as illogical. But when the substance of what science hopes for is simply another verifiable observation, and the evidence they cannot see is always the next hope beyond the horizon, they press on relentlessly. They grope for something that is always larger than themselves – Truth. They practice the logical concept of faith by using the scientific method, then turn and proclaim that faith is not based on evidence. They want to assert that science is evidence based, but faith is not. I find that quite ironic, when I read the best definition of faith that I know: Heb 11:1.
Instead of arguing the semantics of a definition of faith being predicated on a lack of evidence, is it not more logical to take the biblical definition that it is? It is far more logical to realize that the scientific method is faith in action, not the absence of it. Why does it make more sense for the smartest of us to think first to disagree? Amos 3:3-5
It seems that we are victims of our own Human Compulsion.
There is a better way. This better way is Christianity, whether we know we are practicing it or not. Isn’t is funny how the Word gets through in a way that is not recognized by the smartest of all people on the planet, but they nevertheless practice His teachings unknowingly? John 1:1-5
Check out the Believers page for a little more background on this kind of logical Christian thinking.
E-Sword