Jun
28
True Mysteries
Filed Under Devotional
I was listening to a very good debate between two very civil people on the topic of Intelligent Design versus Darwinism. The debate was lively and insightful until the proponent of Darwinism caused me to react like the AFLAC duck with his now famous exasperated head shake. He statement was, and I am paraphrasing, that if anything being studied cannot be done so by gathering physical data and replicated in the lab, then science, by its very nature, cannot consider it as a possible solution.
Is it just me or is that like saying we are going to play baseball and the winner of the game will be declared right on the chosen subject. However, one side will never be allowed, under any circumstances, to run to third base. Just because the truth of the matter cannot be reached using man-made rules doesn’t mean it’s not the truth. Complain all we will to the umpire, but he just counts the other side’s runs while our team keeps getting hits and getting stuck on second base. If something is a mystery, it simply gets put on hold at second base until some physical, testable evidence becomes available. In the meantime, they keep gathering runs based on their rules.
Mysteries are nothing special. There are many that we speculate about all the time:
- Why do some people do terrible things?
- Why do some people give their lives for strangers?
- Why can some people paint a picture?
- Why cancer?
We speculate about all of these things and arrive at conclusions based on some science and some history. That’s not allowed with the origin of the universe because only so-called hard evidence is allowed. No history that doesn’t fit the man-made rules is allowed.
Daniel and Paul are two examples of many that could be called “people of mystery”. History tells us that God spoke directly to them and gave them answers that were true. Add to that Mary, her husband, Joseph, the magi, Moses, Joseph, the son of Jacob, Nathan, and so on. These are all historical people with written and archaeological evidence that cannot be taken into account because their encounters cannot be replicated on some university campus.
“But as for me, this mystery has not been revealed to me for any wisdom residing in me more than in any other living man, but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.” Daniel 2:30
“but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;” 1 Corinthians 2:7
If there is no such thing as a mystery, why do we have a word for it? A mystery, by its nature, means that not only do we currently have no so-called hard evidence, but we may never have it. Mysteries are true!