Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms―this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men."
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Interesting that despite having been considered one of the most intelligent men, he didn't realize that a source of information exists which can be confirmed to be accurate and of Divine origin that provides a minimal knowledge of answers to a large amount of questions no doubt he had. Truly a shame he never found his answers. Even at that, one thing I've learned from my study of that source, is merely a very small scratch of the surface is covered in it as 6000 years of history could not be contained even within the Library of Congress. Therefore, that one thing to know is how little knowledge of such things is really possible and how much less we would have without the Bible.
ReplyDelete“Religion is a snare and a racket,” boomed the voice from the phonograph.
ReplyDeleteIn 1930 I would have played that record, I would have carried that sign. That would have been my “answer.” In 2010 that “answer” would be wrong. That’s the funny thing about my “answers” they seem to change with time don’t they? Now I can give all kinds of explanations why they change, but change they do.
Does that mean I have less faith today? My “answer”? ABSOLUTELY not. I am certain that Jehovah is the true God and I am certain He has ALL the “answers.” But, evidently, he is quite content not to share them all with me….OR anyone else it turns out.
"if there is knowledge it will be swallowed up in truth. For our knowledge is always incomplete and our prophecy is always incomplete, and when the complete comes, that is the end of the incomplete." - 1Cor 13:9,10 (J.B. Philips)
“the complete” hasn’t come yet and it won’t for many, many years. (Do your research on that Scripture and you will find this statement is “current truth”) So that leaves my knowledge incomplete and the more I am aware of that the more cautious I should be with my “answers.” How many answers have I given to how many people over the last 40 years that are not the “answers” at all now? No, I think it best to direct people to God and hope he gives them enough of the “answers” to survive this rotten world. I won’t judge, God will do that, and since he hasn’t done that yet, I will remain with my “incomplete knowledge” and take things as they come.
We tend to see what we want to see.
ReplyDeleteWe tend to ignore (or fight) anything that doesn't fit what we we already "know".