Thursday, September 1, 2011

Absolute Love interferes with normal life. Joh 11:23-26 "Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

"... the laws tell you how a billiard ball will travel on a smooth surface if you hit it in a particular way- but only if no one interferes. If, after it's already in motion, somene snatches up a cue and gives it a biff on one side-why, then you won't get what science predicted. ...
in the same way, if there was anything outside Nature, and it interfered- then the events the scientist expected wouldn't follow.  ... The laws tell you what will happen if nothing interferes. They can't tell you whether something is going to interfere. ... it isn't the scientist who can tell you how likely Nature is to be interfered with from outside, You must go to the metaphysician. ...
Don't you think that all you athiests are strangely unsuspicious people?" C. S. Lewis
Essay "Religion and Science" in God in the Dock:Essays on Theology and Ethics ed. Walter Hooper pgs 73-75 1970 Wm. B, Eerdmans Publishing Company

Joh 11:38-44 "Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out."  The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and let him go."

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