Talossans in Christ Church

[Ián Tamorán S.H.]

...If you look to science for gnosis
You will come up empty-handed every time.
As if you look to Christ in false search of worldly peace
Your own uncertainty will chastise you...

I am a Christian, and I am a scientist.  And I do not understand Christianity, and I do not understand science - but for two very different reasons.

Science gives information about science, though it is used to try to find (some) truths about the real world.  Science keeps changing, science asks questions impossible to answer, science talks about the visible universe, but cannot change that universe.  The one central thing that science shows us is how ignorant we are.  And science cannot, in the long term, remove all of that ignorance.

Christianity gives us information about God, and central truths about the real world - the world we can see and hear - and about the private world that each one of us has.  Christianity tells us that God knows everything - the whole universe - and He knows you personally.  For God there are no questions that are impossible to answer. Christianity partially shows us how ignorant we, mankind, are - but promises us the wiping away of that ignorance.  Science changes: God does not change.

On earth we also are God's hands. If there are things we have the power to do, those things will not happen magically by themselves - we have to do them. We can - and should - ask for guidance, through prayer, so that it is God's work we are doing. The "easy" bit about prayer is us speaking words to God: the "hard" bit about prayer is being silent, giving space for God to answer us - and to listen to his answers.

Father God, I pray patience so that I may hear Your words.  I pray that all of us here may listen. And I pray that all those in authority or influence - large or small - will also hear Your words, and act by them,

Amen