What Science cannot prove but is necessary for it to be valid:
- Reality is rational
- Reality is knowable
- The uniformity of nature across time and space
- Causation
- The very existence of an external universe consisting of matter
The faith in God is not an acquired wisdom. It is a treasure of the soul. Once Jesus has come into the world, and made manifest the power of God in this earthly realm, He has made new the entire realm of human existence. In the fact that there is a God who has walked the earth, the heavens are opened up and the angels have rejoiced. Truly, it is the single act that has sanctified man above all creation. God so loved the world that his own part, His own spirit, has come down into flesh and form.
Who is to know this fact but that which exists outside the realm of the knowable? By knowable, I pertain to the 5 senses upon which science is based. The knowledge of science is resolutely definite, and by this it is also resolutely limited. It is advancing in time, but even as it stands now, certain “laws” are only in fact, learned theories based on the assumptions of repetitive experimentation or deductive reasoning. This reasoning can be faulty because one gross assumption or weak point, one false fact based on a myriad of circumstance and perspective can throw the theory into a mire of confusion.
Not so with God. God has known because He has created. He is. That which is unknowable is that which He is.
Human beings exist in a single plane reality where time is constantly at present. Their consciousness is a single point in time and space. Though their spirit is of the same substance as their creator, they cannot and have not begun to fathom the depths from which they have been hewn.
To put it as a parable, the very existence of a human being is like a blind man. As the blind man sits in a park, he cannot see the circular shape of the sun, nor the blue of the skies, nor the brown of the porch that he sits on. He can only feel the sun’s heat, and smell the fresh air, and feel the hard and warm porch. Still, the colors are there. Still, the sun shines, however limited it has been perceived. The sun cannot make the man see its brilliance, nor force it to feel how the leaves take life from its rays. Yet the sun shall be the sun. The blind man shall continue in his blindness.
If someone were to tell the blind man that there is indeed a sun, and its rays supply the earth with foliage, and its heat is that which one feels on the skin half a day, and its absence is the cool darkness, it is to the blind man’s merit to believe. The sun shall be the sun.
For the blind man to believe in the sun, his life changes. He becomes aware of a universe larger than himself. He is comforted by knowing where the strange heat on his skin comes from, and he takes solace in the constancy of its heat after the cold mist of darkness.
Therefore, let not your rational mind blind you to the truth that your soul knows. There have been many experiences to prove the existence of the divine order. There is also the limits of the knowledge of science. Therefore, it is each blind man’s choice to believe or not to believe.