Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Knowledge is Infinite

Scientists shout ‘Eureka’ at their discoveries, and hearing one recently finding what he thought to be the definitive answer to to a life-long question, he has claimed the glory of solving the problem.

What he and others like him fail to see from history is that when an important fact is found it becomes the starting point for a host of other possible research routes.

In fact – logic tells us that knowledge is infinite, and can be likened to someone hill walking. on struggling up to the top of the hill no others are in view until the top is reached, and it is then that the other big hills come into view after being previously hidden. The peaks to be conquered become endless, but you don’t know that they are there until you climb.

Although I can accept that scientific discoveries are valid in there own right, no scientist can claim to know all about a subject, and likewise, religious exponents cannot claim to know the whole truth, because the truth is just as infinite, and endless. We can only work with the facts we have.

My challenge therefore is to apply this concept to Christianity, and to our understanding of God. For those who prefer to not know, perhaps they could contemplate some of the facts which exist describing God’s work. No facts exist to disprove such existence.

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