Every Step is a Step of Faith
Every Step is a Step of Faith
? Stephen H. Farra, PhD, LP, 2022.?All rights reserved.
??This very short article offers a new, fresh perspective on life itself.
Suspended between the essentially infinite Microcosm beneath us and the essentially infinite Macrocosm above us, at the physical level, we don’t know what we think we know, and really know almost nothing at all (Blaise Pascal). ?Every step is a step of faith, whether we understand this or not.?
?Those who smugly stay walled up inside the very small world of their own Closed Naturalism/Materialism don’t understand that finally (in the end) nothing is Material.???What we call Matter/Material is just Energy temporarily slowed down enough for us to see it and handle it (Albert Einstein).???
?Every time closed Naturalism/Materialism tries to “scientifically” explain empathetic awareness and loving human relationships – particularly remote empathy and love, the explanations are patently inadequate, fall apart, and leave us empty.?A working knowledge of mirror neurons does not bring us into abiding loving relationships – or keep us there.?
?Even if we believed that Matter/Material things are all that are finally, ultimately “real” and “trustworthy”, we would and could have no awareness of them apart from Spirituality/Consciousness – which is itself a gift.??
?It’s far past time for us to raise our eyes – and behold our Creator.?
Executive Dean of Tozer Seminary and Special Projects for Simpson University
2 年A researcher friend has said that the medium between the largest and the smallest of all creation is human kind. Research continue to explore and discover more things in the micro and the macro. I continue to be amazed that our Creator has brought balance and design to this material world...