The following is a guest post from my long-time friend, Christopher Neiswonger. Some of you may recognize him as the lead singer of Precious Death. Others may remember him as the former host of the Apologetics.com radio show. He is currently the pastor of Graceview Church in Southaven, Mississippi.
We’re living in the age of the end of the Big Bang. It was always a weird interpretation of the universe but bought in by no one more than Christians themselves.
The temptation was the congruous relationship between the faith and the sciences, but sciences are always based upon human observation and limited to human experience, which is very, very small.
So, as soon as we know more, the former theories die the death of abandonment and ridicule. When Christian faith is tied too tightly to some scientific theory, it inevitably fails, as all such theories do.
God is not himself subject to human observation, nor are his methods open to scientific apprehension.
At best, the sciences reap implications from his works or learn to replicate or manipulate already existing processes we can never truly understand.
When scientists grapple with ultimate understandings of the real, they’re escaping science itself and delving into the realms of theology, and that theology is almost always bad.
We will never find God through our microscopes or telescopes because he is greater than our comprehension can admit.
God is known only to the extent that he has chosen to reveal himself. And so the god or gods theorized from these principles are never quite the Christian God. I’ve known many who came into the Christian religion through philosophy or the sciences, Big Bang arguments, and sciency apologetics, but few of them ever came to a historic and orthodox faith or persevered in that hope. What you win them through is what you win them to, and so if you win them through the Big Bang, you essentially win them to the Big Bang deity.
But the Big Bang is not Christian theism, nor is it necessarily theistic at all, nor are all of its religious interpretations reconcilable with Christian faith. Here, if someone came to the Christian faith because of the Big Bang, then perhaps as it fades from scientific credibility, so does that faith.
It’s sad when a person’s faith in God lies so dependent upon merely fallible human judgments, but it happens.
I would encourage you, Christian (and even you, the not-yet-Christian theistic believer in some kind of “god” behind and beyond the universe), to receive your understanding of the world and yourself from the revelation God has given in the Bible itself.
It was written exactly for that purpose and has knowledge in it for you that cannot be gained by any other means because it has a God’s eye view.
That which in it might seem impossible is possible, and that which is beyond human imagination is imaginable.
And any pretended wisdom of the mind of man, your heroes of the intellect, your geniuses, your gods among men, all of your theories will fall to the ground in due time.
“So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:11
-Neiswonger
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