I don’t feel any less worthy in God’s eyes based on HOW I was created. My worth is based on WHY I was created. The Bible tells us the purpose for our lives, whereas science tells us the mechanistic details of life. God loves worms like us for a reason: we are able to reflect the love of God unlike any other creation.

Natural science gives purely mechanistic, not moral, explanations. Some people try to extend physical laws (e.g. opposite charges attract = people with opposite personalities attract) to social ‘laws,’ and even worse, some people use biological variation to support deterministic views (e.g. eugenics). My understanding of evolution doesn’t make humans any more or less worthy of love, but my understanding of evolution helps me to better know how to manipulate nature to show the greatest love possible through medicine and other research. Excellent medicine is based on excellent science, and excellent love is based on excellent faith.

God is Truth, but Truth is not God, because God is greater than physical AND non-physical laws, since God frequently breaks physical laws in the Bible and God is beyond understanding. Would God create a law He can’t break? God seems to be the greatest law breaker of all. Maybe the idea of laws is flawed, but that’s not the point.

We need to do everything out of love, as the greatest commandment (i.e. love God and your neighbor) instructs. God reveals to us how to do this best. Since knowledge allows me to know how to love better, I value knowledge. However, if I value knowledge alone, my knowledge becomes worthless, because I will use my knowledge without love. The Bible allows us to realize the salvation promised in Jesus Christ, which frees us from sin and gives us the freedom to love everyone without end. Knowledge does not need to interfere with this and can be a valuable supplement to loving others. We can believe in all of the Bible and in all of science, because ALL OF IT IS GOD’S CREATION. At certain times, we need to humble ourselves because it may be difficult to understand how God can create contradictory things, but in the end, there are no contradictions in the Bible and in science, only our transient understandings are contradictory.

Communion is both the physical blood and flesh of Christ and bread and wine. In the same way, I believe in the physical six days and a billion-year-old universe. What’s important is God is the creator and does anything He likes irrespective if our fleshy brain can understand it. We need to be faithful and humble to everything, and most importantly love everyone.

"The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing." (John 6:63)

John 6
52Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

53Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." 59He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
Many Disciples Desert Jesus
60On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?"

61Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you? 62What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

The Brain counts for nothing

This entry was originally published at Interconnectedness by Mikhail (Misha) Lomize