Don: We’ve noted that both science and faith lay claim to “the truth” and decided that we need to understand what exactly is meant by it. We need to study the theology of truth. The issue of truth is raised more than 200 times in the bible. Jesus told Pontius Pilate that everyone who is…

Don: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (1936) Science and faith appear to be opposed ideas. Each lays claim to honesty, integrity, and “the truth.”  Science bases…

Don: It seems from our discussion so far that science and religion can only be reconciled if we accept that god underwrites both; that he wrote both the bible and the so-called Book of Nature, as the first verse of Psalm 19 implies: The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse…

Don: For much of the history of man, things of the spirit and things of the flesh—things of nature and things of god—were combined and overlapped. Until the 19th century the term “science” did not even exist: The term used was “natural philosophy.” Its students were not scientists but “natural philosophers.” Their interest was to…

Don: We have been discussing the relationship between things of the body, which I will call science, and things of the spirit, which I will call faith or religion. In linking forgiveness (a thing of the spirit) with healing (a thing of the body), Jesus is simply recognizing the worldview of the time. Illness had…

Hi Everyone, I would like to share this with you; comments are encouraged. 🙂 These are just some thoughts I’m having recently. They are not complete, and not explained by the best of words. I realize now that I tend to change, and so do my beliefs and understanding. Which I now understand as beneficial…