Without
question, this is the great mystery of our faith: Christ was
revealed in a human body and vindicated by the Spirit. (I Timothy
3:16a NLT)
The
incarnate Christ will always be a mystery. The Bible is not a science
textbook. It reveals God to us, yet,
authentic faith and pure science are never contradictory.
The
great commentator Matthew Henry once wrote, “Christianity is a mystery that
could not have been discovered by reason or the light of nature, because it is
beyond reason, though not contrary to it.”
Faith in God’s revelation to man, the Bible, reveals God to us. Science does not explain God to us, but it
does confirm his existence. In the early
part of the church-age, Christianity and science worked together to reveal the
truth. What happened? The church has to take at least part of the
responsibility for the split. The church
started to make scientific observations based on what they believed the Bible
said, such as the Earth is the center of the universe.
The
Bible was never intended to be scientific in nature. The Bible was written in
poetic language as we view things from the earth. The sun does not move around the planet as it
appears, but vice versa. Science picked up on this and has mostly written off
religion ever since. The estrangement
has only become wider and wider.
Scripture,
improperly interpreted is not a good science teacher, nor is science a great
theologian, yet if both are correctly exercised, they can be complementary and
not contradictory. If we as Christians would speak to the unbelieving
scientific world a little more by reason, maybe they would be a bit more open
to hearing about the mystery of Christ.
Image used with permission by Microsoft.
Image used with permission by Microsoft.
Ken
Barnes the author of “The Chicken Farm and Other Sacred Places” YWAM Publishing
Email: kenbarnes737@gmail.com
website: https://sites.google.com/site/kenbarnesbooksite/
Email: kenbarnes737@gmail.com
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