You know you can have both. Follow his teaching of loving one another and giving to others. But also don't ignore science.
This is how I live. I believe in God and Jesus but I also know that dinosaurs were real and the earth isn't just a couple thousand years old like the Bible says.
That is one thing people don't realize. You can believe in both not just one or the other.
It's so strange that this concept seems impossible to some people. I agree with you. My science teacher used to have the saying on her doorframe: "A little science removes a man from God, a lot of science brings him back."
True words. Science and religion aren’t competitors. Ignorant people are ignorant regardless of the banner they march under. Scientific thought does not allow the impossible to be proven, so any appeal to the impossible is based on a leap of faith. We can only rule on the probability of a thing based on a sampling of data. Likewise, religion does not negate science. The fact that a deity could or has done XYZ is immaterial to science. Science is how humans study the mechanisms of reality and relate it in ways we can’t understand. If divinity and or omnipotence were to exist, we could not comprehend the mechanics of the world as an omnipotent being would without ourselves being consciously omnipotent. Or more relatable:
Joe knows how to use an app. He doesn’t know how it works or why. He knows it’s “computer stuff.” To Joe it is magic but it does what he wants. Jane knows how to download programs that let her cheat on the app. She doesn’t know how they work, but she knows enough to find them and use them. Jim knows how to code. He knows why the app does what it does, he can change its behavior or even create some parts of it. Jill is a Computer Science master. She doesn’t just know how to write some lines of code, but she knows what those lines of code are read a certain way by the machine, she knows how they work and how the compiler works and how the hardware the app runs on works. Even IF Joe or Jane sat down with Jill, they likely wouldn’t understand a word Jill said even if she used the smallest words she knew. Jim MIGHT understand some but not all. There is more to the world than we know or can hope to have one person know. That doesn’t prove a god exists but you can’t prove a god doesn’t either
Right? It’s crazy how you can drink a bottle of wine at home and people are ok with it, but if you start drinking a bottle of wine while driving a school bus people lose their shit. It’s almost as if... they weren’t the same thing and context mattered. I mean- just the other day I came up to this big red sign that said STOP. So I slowed down and rolled through it because no one ever complained when I do that at a sign that says “YIELD,” and this cop gets mad at me. Starts talking about how one of those signs specifically forbids something and the other doesn’t or some nonesense. Of course I just tuned him out since he was obviously some liberal whacko trying to use “words” and “facts” to show me that the “real world” isn’t like the one in my head. I swear. Sometimes I think it’s like these people are so fixated on “reality” and “comprehension” that they forget I have the right to speak and act without thinking based on purely emotional reactions tinted by my own biases.
There’s statistically always some chance. However I could not foresee in any reasonable future myself dyin my hair blue. Even as a costume I would get a wig and not dye it. Currently and at no point in the past has my hair been dyed any color. No offense to those who choose to do so, but personally I do not see a need to use my personal appearance to make any sort of statement other than that of basic professionalism and hygiene, and am not prone to conspicuous displays nor a need for self expression beyond my words, actions, choices, and hobbies.
This is how I live. I believe in God and Jesus but I also know that dinosaurs were real and the earth isn't just a couple thousand years old like the Bible says.
That is one thing people don't realize. You can believe in both not just one or the other.
Really good analogy