I have read that science and religion cannot coexist and I don't understand this. Why the hell not. God is all powerful and he created all, therefore he created the scientists also. God gave us the intelligence to think and question. Why is scientists and religious believers in conflict over so many things? Evolution for instance. Is God who was supposed to created everything not strong enough to create evolution?
Are the conflicts due to the fact that man gets so comfortable with how they were taught to think, so when new discoveries are found by scientist it shakes the foundation of everything that they were taught. Is this not a condratiction in the believe that with God all things are possible?
Mathew 19:26 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
I went to a Catholic school for most of my schooling and religion is based on blind trust. To question things is a sign that one is not very devoted to ones religion. I must say something for those few Nuns that taught at the school. The Nuns never forced their religious believes on their students and as a result there were students of other religions attending that school.
Jesus taught in parables. He taught in such a manner that all that heard him could understand. Is the bible also not written in this fashion?
A parable is like a riddle written as a story that compares two things one of which you understand and the other you're trying to understand.
The Bible has plenty of parables, mysteries and riddles waiting for you to discover in the way that you learn best.
When the disciples asked Jesus why did He talk to the people in parables this is what He said:
Matthew 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Some people believe this means only the chosen can understand the mysteries of God.
I have read that science is thought by some that it is a religion. There is no blind worshipping in science just a life time didication to find out why and how. Many break throughs in science has saved many lives.
Francis Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In a 2007 book about the intersection between science and faith, Collins described how he converted from atheism to Christianity and attempts to argue that the idea of a Christian God is compatible with Darwin's theory of evolution.
"I have found there is a wonderful harmony in the complementary truths of science and faith. The God of the Bible is also also the God of the genome. God can be found in the cathedral or in the laboratory. By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
If people are so accepting why are there so many different religions out there. The bible is open to many different interpretation and if people did not like how religion was taught they just changed over to another religion. Just like to day if we not happy with our cellular provide we can move to another and even keep the same cell phone number. Move over to a new religion and still keep the same God. The thing is we accept things as factual only if it suits us and confirms what we think its right but if it should challenge our believes we bail out and find something else that supports our believes.
The question that I have asked and nobody can answer. What religion did God follow? God did not follow or create a religion. God created man and man made religion. In fact God hated religion.
Isaac 1:13 It's useless to bring your offerings. I am disgusted with the smell of the incense you burn. I cannot stand your New Moon Festivals, your Sabbaths, and your religious gatherings; they are all corrupted by your sins.
In the story of Adam and Eve, it was a snake that intised Eve to eat the apple from the tree of knowledge. Man already not taking responsibility for his own actions? This part of the bible teaches us how sin first originated. What is so bad in eating the apple? It was a direct command from God not to eat the apple.
Another verse in the bible which was taken very literally and therefore does not fit with evolution.
Genesis 2:22 Then the LORD God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.
Extracts taking from this site
http://discovermagazine.com/1995/sep/darwinsrib561
I challenge them; tell me how a human female skeleton differs anatomically from a male.
The male and female skeletons I display are exemplary in their difference, and since most students should be able to guess what that difference is if they don’t already know, I usually feel confident that the final answer is a giveaway. I say usually because seven years ago, the first time I taught the course, I got a surprising answer that still crops up with
alarming regularity. Five minutes into the lab period, a young woman announced that she could answer the question without even examining the human skeletons.
I waited silently for her to explain that the female pelvis is shaped slightly differently from the male’s, with a larger opening for childbearing. That part was the giveaway. The real purpose of the exercise was to make her prove her conjecture with measurements--to translate the theory to practice. I also wanted her to explain why this sexual dimorphism--that is, this sexually determined physical difference--is not nearly so pronounced in nonhuman primates, such as chimpanzees.
She spoke: Males have one fewer pair of ribs than females.
I was totally unprepared for her answer. My mandible dropped. After a moment’s reflection, I realized she must be referring to the biblical story in which God creates Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. My student was someone who believed in the literal truth of the Bible, and it was her religious belief, not her previous knowledge of human anatomy, that made her so sure of her answer. This was going to be a challenge.
Nobody knows for sure how many ribs that God created Adam with. It is a know fact that ribs comes in pairs. That a normal human is born with 12 sets of ribs but humans have been born with an extra pair of ribs or even born with less ribs. Is this to be taken as another parable. Told in such a way that it was easy to understand? With discoveries made by scientist humans have been around much longer than the 6 thousand years, according to the bible.
Scientist have not yet proven the exsistance of God and at the same time they have not proven that God did not exsist. 51% of scientist do believe in God which is more than the rest of the population all over the world. More people are not believing in God these days.
The age of God
In fact, the Bible is clear that God has always existed. There has never been a time when He didn’t exist and there will never be a time when He stops existing. “Before the mountains were brought forth…Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God,” the psalmist wrote (Psalm 90:2).
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