Wednesday, January 29, 2014

SCIENCE AND FAITH:

At creation God, gave humans dominion over every other creation on earth, he created us differently from other animals (each after its own kind). He created humans to have more intelligence than other animals (which has enabled us to create weapons and machinery that enhances our dominance) - while other animals might be bigger and stronger, we (humans) have the intellect to subdue and dominate.
God is the one who gave us the intellectual ability. In Deuteronomy 29: 29, Moses wrote the following to the Israelites "the secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the Words of this law". Based on His timing and history (past or to come - future events are history to God), He allows or give us insight to know a little more of His majesty, those knowledge is now what our generation classify as sciences, whether it is medical sciences, or engineering, or astronomy or whatever branch of science we find ourselves (as a dad, to a future engineer, I pray daily that God will reveal secrets that would change his generation in biomedical engineering to him).
Allow me to open your imagination (as I believe it), on how God reveal things to human at His timing. The book of Revelation of Christ was written about 70AD, and its content has been read through many generations. In Revelation 11, the bible talked about the death of the two witnesses, and that for 3 days the whole world (verse 9 - every tribe, people and language) will gaze on their body, while those of us reading it today would immediately think of GPS technology (satellites), those who read it from the 1st century to the 18th century, could not even imagine what that verse is saying, how everyone in the world could see their dead body simultaneously?.
Through what we now call science, God has revealed what we need to know, when we need to know to us. It is interesting to note that, there are things God has revealed clearly but there are things that are still hidden from us. God has (in His grace and mercy) given us insight to know more about ourselves physically and emotionally. Through mathematics, we now have principles and laws that have helped created things that have made life easy such as cars, airplanes and other household items, and technologies that facilitated easier communication. Genetic engineering is a product of this century and it has already been helpful in treating human diseases.

The sciences of psychology, neurology and psychiatry has helped us understand the chemical components of the human brain, and with time, experts in the field, now know how to treat (not heal) certain diagnoses. People like Dr. James Dobson, a PhD and specialist in child psychology have been able to combine the knowledge of psychology and spiritual insight to help many homes, and Dr. Ben Carson an MD and pediatric neuro-surgeon have been able to combine neuro/surgery and spiritual insight to bring happiness to many homes.

Understanding Spiritual Insight and lies of the Enemy
Since the fall of Lucifer and 1/3 of the angels (now called demons), they have sought to separate God from His creation (humans), whom He created for fellowship. In the Garden of Eden, Satan (formerly Lucifer) succeeded in making Adam and Eve sin, hence dying instantly spiritually (separation from God) and eventually physically (something that was not in the original plan) - see Genesis 3.
Satan usurped the vacuum of dominion and authority God gave to man, and created a spiritual kingdom, referred to as the kingdom of Darkness in the bible (see Isa.61:1, Ps.82:5, Col.1:13 and Luke 1:79). This spiritual kingdom uses everything available to it separate humans from God, primarily using human intellect and emotion. Jesus came to establish another spiritual kingdom that counter-balances the spiritual wiles or schemes of the kingdom of darkness (read the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).
Through the kingdom of darkness, Satan and his agents creates elaborate schemes or wiles to deceive humans. For some, he makes them believe that spiritual things does not even exist, life starts and end with what we see only, for some he makes them believe that human intellect is all there is - seeing is believing rather than faith - evidence of things hope for, for some he makes them believe that they have a spiritual relationship even though it is all based on emotional high and lows, for some who identify as Christians - he tells them that Biblical Principles (not methods such as technology) should change with the culture of the time, so on many levels Satan seeks to separate humans from their creator, both here on earth and in eternity.
Another deceit of the enemy is the tripartite nature of man. In most pantheistic religions (which includes the New Age move

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