HAPPY MONDAY!
A three-year-old conversation prompts today’s word-of-the-week
FACTS
“I’m a science guy. I rely on evidence, data, and facts.”
I’ve frequently pondered my friend’s rationale for not believing in God, because I’m a science guy, too. I want bridge designers and architects and physicists—and lots of other folks—to be science guys as well.
I know some folks believe there’s evidence for God, but it’s not the sort of evidence that’ll stand up to scientific scrutiny. It can’t, because science gathers data about the world God created and God exists beyond that world.
Just as God exists outside the realm of science, I believe there’s a level of knowing beyond facts and evidence. We call that level TRUTH.
Aside from my relationship with Jesus, my love for Becky is the singular most powerfully inspiring force in my life. I can provide no evidence, no data, to establish the existence of that love as a scientific fact. But lack of evidence doesn’t mean it’s imaginary.
That love is a baseline Truth in my life. Attempts to reduce it to facts of behavior or brain function or physiologic response couldn’t begin to capture the totality of the Truth.
We know the science that creates a sunset and the music theory behind a symphony, but none of that explains the experiences of viewing or listening or creating.
I think it’s a general principle that whenever we reduce a Truth to mere facts, or even try to express it in words, we diminish it.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
God didn’t explain The Word. He sent it to live among us.
And Jesus wasn’t full of facts.
Have a great week!
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