Thank you for the verses. They were encouraging.
I certainly know that Christ is the ultimate destination of all those
persistent in seeking truth in any discipline. I also certainly know
that he is not the explicit goal of ALL those persistent in seeking
truth in any discipline. All who find truth, find Christ, but not all
who find truth explicitly seek Christ.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to know God through science. You can only know God
through faith, and that by God's calling, choosing, and revealing.
You cannot justify, before God, "merging" your science with your
theology to avoid following a false end of our scientific inquiry. Paul
in Romans 14:23 says specifically, "And he that doubteth is damned if he
eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is
sin." Anything done outside of direct revelation from God himself to
you is presumption, and therefore, sin.
I don't know what Max Planck meant exactly when he said, "God is the
beginning of every religion and at the end of the natural sciences."
The perception I receive from this, however, is that he believes all
religions essentially the same, which is absolutely and eternally void
of discernment. Further, God is not only at the end of nature, he is
all in all. By him all things consist and are sustained.
John Neal