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Friday, August 10, 2007 1:03 AM CDT
Clergy View: Faith that God can bring order out of chaos
By Rev. JACK WOODS, Faith United Methodist, Mattoon
It puzzles me why so many people of faith get bent out of shape over some theories of the science community.
Scientists understand how the physical world works to an amazing degree. They can explain how a baseball pitcher can throw a curve ball. They send rockets to the moons and to planets in our solar system.
They understand subatomic particles, protons, muons, quarks, etc. And yet they admit they don’t understand why things stick together, like rocks, electricity, plants, organisms, us.
They don’t have all the answers, but most of these tested theories help me appreciate the marvelous complexity of the universe. And just think, we didn’t earn it, it’s all a gift.
There are so many wonderful things in creation for us to discover and understand. For instance, how can twin photons (particles or waves that make up light) be divided by a light year, and yet if one is affected the other responds the same way?
Or how a happening on the subatomic level now can change the past?
Or, how can the chaotic subatomic produce an ordered and predictable universe?
It seems to me that the more the science community explores creation the more awesome our Creator becomes.
We also have been given the gift of faith and prayer. Jesus says even the simplest among us can enjoy these gifts.
Does a child need to understand love to receive it? Does a child need to understand fire to obey the warning, “Don’t touch!”?
We have been given faith to believe that God can bring order out of chaos, that God’s chosen destiny for us can direct the present, that God who is beyond time and space can create any way He wants for as long as He wants. If I can’t believe that, then my God is too small.
Even on the small scale of “me” He is awesome. I asked God to change my life and He changed me. I asked God to give me what I had lost and He gave me hope for the future. I asked God to take away the pain and He gave me joy. I asked God to take away my troubles and He gave me peace.
I asked God for the gift of the Holy Spirit and He said, “I already have.”
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Pilgrim wrote on Aug 10, 2007 11:23 AM: