Re: [asa] Of motes and beams

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Vernon Jenkins wrote:
> > Forum,
> >
> > <SNIP>Clearly, these extracts suggest that the _natural_ is,
and always has been,

open to supernatural activity - in God's wisdom, and at His
discretion.<snip>

 On the other hand, our

interest in the supernatural, as Christians, appears to begin and
end with

the resurrection. Is this really adequate for those who earnestly
seek
truth?
> >
> > Vernon
> > www.otherbiblecode.com

Well said vernon.

One of the things that puzzles me is how certain things are
dismissed as
"non-scientific" as if science has already reached her zenith of
knowledge. We barely have scratched the surface of the universe yet
we
confidently dismiss certain events as 'supernatural' and therefore
not
scientific - or from another angle - "They must have a scientific
explanation...."

Well obviously. For example, for fun with the supernatural, ghosts.
If someone comes running
out of a house screaming they saw a ghost and they describe an
experience where a see through figure, accompanied by great cold,
pushed
them over and then vanishes most people I know would indeed say,
"Come
now, there must be a scientific explanation."

Thats obvious but the implication is that what the person
experienced
cannot be as they experienced it because Ghosts (AKA the
supernatural)
does not exist. But IF they DID exist then there would be a
scientific
explanation - just one that we have not though of. IF dead people or
something like the dead are interacting with our world then clearly
they
are part of our world and therefore scientifically
explainable...sooner
or later.

IF the dead can come back or some spiritual fragment remains in our
dimension then clearly a scientific explanation will be found. It
may
well turn out that the scientific explanation is hallucinations or
whatever..but maybe not...and until we have more knowledge and a
way of
measuring adequately such events I think an open mind is called for.

After all, if God created the world then everything in it is
ultimately
a result of the supernatural which we measure through scientific
tools.

Anyhow, a harried half though on a wet tuesday morning in New
Guinea.

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