The thing with knowledge is that it stirs up the storms of curiosity. It is a basic character of an active mind to seek knowledge, for by knowledge comes wisdom, understanding and doubt. By doubt a man questions what he knows to defy his reason. Doubt is a seed. A good seed.....a bad seed. It depends on what side you stand on. On one side, it is leads to safety and steers away from gullibility. On another, it starves faith and festers apostasy.
As the world grows in knowledge, the impact of faith diminishes. Science and scientists have become gods in their own rights as logic explains everything....well, almost everything. The way of science sees to it that everything is a subject of investigation and whatever cannot be explained by logic is either invalid or unreliable.
The conflict is strong. The conflict between faith and logic. They are the two fronts in the battle for the souls of men.
What does it mean to have faith? It means to believe what logic denies. To the ways of the world faith is a task. It is a tall tree on a mountain insurmountable.
So the questions arise......do men of faith believe because they don't know enough to question? Did they cave into the convenience of simplicity? Or are they higher beings with eyes of the mind? A Scholar once called religion the opium of the masses..... a hypnotic grasp, a grand deception that lures simple men away from reality and realism. Religion may be all that but not faith. Indeed, faith is for the simple, it is simple as the stories, fables and myths which can never contest the facts of biology, geology, astronomy, philosophy. Faith is Simple tales against complex views. Faith is Plain truths against deep facts. It is like David facing Goliath. The result of that battle was almost predictable,unmistakeable.....one could bet a life on the giant and that was logical....it would have made sense. But that battle was not about the facts, it was about truth. It was not about ability, it was about capacity..it was not about strength, it was about power, it was not about size, it was about skill. It was not about might, it was about faith.
We must know, we need to know all that there is to be known. When we do, we are awoken from the sleep of emptiness to assume some measure of control over life. When we do, we should be awe stricken by the nature of our creator. Is logic ever a sufficient explainer of the fragments of life? There are frontiers we must never dare to approach as finite men. It is but faith that unlocks the limits of our finiteness.
If you have knowledge, you need faith, if you have faith, you need knowledge, by this men are made loyal to the God that can never be explained.
nenchinten@yahoo.ca My 5 year old son, Jonathan asked me the most amusing question the other day....Daddy, how come im small? why am i not 6 yet? I looked down at him with a smile and said, "slow down, we all get older eventually, someday, you just might wish you were younger", i answered. I'm not sure he understood that line, but i am certain those words will come around sometime in his life. It is quite ironic how boys so eagerly seek to be men only to realize that time is a field of mixed blessings. Being young may be a sort of convenience, especially where one is born in the ideal environment....otherwise being young is a state of defenselessness and the eagerness of boys to be men is hinged on the ideals of self preservation. In the path of growth, dreams are forged. Dreams that define, direct and redirect life's choices, life is the battle fought to achieve, conquer, possess, dominate, realize and attain the goals birthed by those dreams. Slowly but steadi
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