**" “Laws” are not forces: things have causal powers. "**
I'll go further and say that no thing has causal powers. What we call laws are indeed observations of how things behave, but things cannot cause any thing. "The flesh profits nothing, only the spirit makes things move."
This is Paul's inspiration for Newton's observation that no thi…
**" “Laws” are not forces: things have causal powers. "**
I'll go further and say that no thing has causal powers. What we call laws are indeed observations of how things behave, but things cannot cause any thing. "The flesh profits nothing, only the spirit makes things move."
This is Paul's inspiration for Newton's observation that no thing moves unless it is acted upon.
But matter moving matter breaks this law. Falsifies this observation, if you will.
It's not your neurons that think. It's not your neurons that originate urges to move your body; make your heart beat, pick up that beer, hammer that keyboard in howling monkey frustration at what you're reading.
It's your spirit.
The flesh, the material, the stuff, the things; these are merely the medium by which your spirit interacts with other things that are not your body, and thus reveals itself and your character.
"Wherefore by their fruits shall ye know them."
The laws of physics are observations of how the spirit of God orders all matter - from the greatest galactic supercluster to the smallest sub-atomic particle.
The constancy, the universality, the exacting rigor of these laws, are testament to His nature and character.
Our spirits are restricted in our power over things, as a practical matter of our own protection. God's spirit is not, hence "miracles"; God ordering things to behave as He requires, in keeping with that single universal underlying law, the Christian Grand Unifying Theory of Everything, i.e. Love.
Love is not a law as we understand that term. Like the Recycling Operations Manager says to Neo: Love is a word. What matters is the connection the word implies.
Science, as an attempt to discover the truth, cannot even or ever see this truth, having been self-blinded by its naturalist presumptions. Again, exactly as prophesied, "for this they are wilfully ignorant of ..."
I grok; this is somewhat tangential to the intent of your column, and for that I apologise.
It's also ultimately fundamental and thoroughly pertinent.
This is not to say there's no value in observing these constancies and describing them mathematically. No. Again, as the Word testifies, God has put it in our hearts to know the truth of things.
We are indeed, by studying His things, learning about Him who is all truth. We are, as a wiser scientist than most observed, thinking His thoughts after Him.
**" “Laws” are not forces: things have causal powers. "**
I'll go further and say that no thing has causal powers. What we call laws are indeed observations of how things behave, but things cannot cause any thing. "The flesh profits nothing, only the spirit makes things move."
This is Paul's inspiration for Newton's observation that no thing moves unless it is acted upon.
But matter moving matter breaks this law. Falsifies this observation, if you will.
It's not your neurons that think. It's not your neurons that originate urges to move your body; make your heart beat, pick up that beer, hammer that keyboard in howling monkey frustration at what you're reading.
It's your spirit.
The flesh, the material, the stuff, the things; these are merely the medium by which your spirit interacts with other things that are not your body, and thus reveals itself and your character.
"Wherefore by their fruits shall ye know them."
The laws of physics are observations of how the spirit of God orders all matter - from the greatest galactic supercluster to the smallest sub-atomic particle.
The constancy, the universality, the exacting rigor of these laws, are testament to His nature and character.
Our spirits are restricted in our power over things, as a practical matter of our own protection. God's spirit is not, hence "miracles"; God ordering things to behave as He requires, in keeping with that single universal underlying law, the Christian Grand Unifying Theory of Everything, i.e. Love.
Love is not a law as we understand that term. Like the Recycling Operations Manager says to Neo: Love is a word. What matters is the connection the word implies.
Science, as an attempt to discover the truth, cannot even or ever see this truth, having been self-blinded by its naturalist presumptions. Again, exactly as prophesied, "for this they are wilfully ignorant of ..."
I grok; this is somewhat tangential to the intent of your column, and for that I apologise.
It's also ultimately fundamental and thoroughly pertinent.
This is not to say there's no value in observing these constancies and describing them mathematically. No. Again, as the Word testifies, God has put it in our hearts to know the truth of things.
We are indeed, by studying His things, learning about Him who is all truth. We are, as a wiser scientist than most observed, thinking His thoughts after Him.
This is right, and good, and beautiful, and true.