A Moment in the Madness

In the throng of thoughts, every now and then you sit up and say: wow, that's so true!

Monday, September 04, 2006

Dive Without Reason

Christianity presents an incredible conundrum: to believe when we don't have absolute, scientifically-proven, formulaic reason. I know there's been a big move in recent years to challenge the convention that Christianity can't be reasoned out, but I still find myself leaning toward the idea that there are gaps that are not easily filled out. It seems an incredible indictment against our religion, and my usual answer is to say that you can't prove scientifically what doesn't fall into the realm of science. In other words, science deals with the natural world, whereas the spiritual realm is like another dimension in which we're dealing. Unfortunately, that's not always comforting to a mind seemingly born in a natural world - it equates to a big washover. But here I am again reading in Hebrews 4:2 that the message was of no value to some hearers because they didn't mix it with faith. Faith is of course redundant when reason alone is used. Maybe faith can be stirred by reason, but at some stage you just take the dive, and the beauty of it all is when your dive takes you into a world you may never have imagined in your process of reasoning.

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