In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Along with the earth, God created mankind.<\/p>\n
Ever since, mankind has been trying to figure out how God and creation fit together.<\/p>\n
For many thousands of years, most people thought that somehow, God and creation were intimately connected. You could learn about what God thought or felt by observing the weather, by succeeding or failing in business, or by being victorious in war.<\/p>\n
Not too long after Aristotle, Jesus lived and died, and His followers struggled with what to do with the teaching of Jesus and the teaching of Aristotle. In many ways, they seemed to agree. But in many other ways, they disagreed. Should the ideas of Aristotle, Plato, and philosophy be rejected outright, or was it okay to learn from philosophy only in the areas of agreement, or was it possible to find a way to reconcile Greek philosophy with the teaching of Jesus?<\/p>\n
Ironically, Tertullian ended up using lots of philosophy to develop his theology, and eventually, philosophy and theology were so intermixed, it was nearly impossible to differentiate one from the other.<\/p>\n
This situation continued until the time of the Enlightenment when great scientific achievements were made. All of sudden, science was challenging some of the philosophical\/theological teaching of the church, and once again, the church was faced with the question of what to do about it. If creation was from God, just as logic, reason, and wisdom were, could we not learn about God from creation, just as we did from logic, reason, and wisdom?<\/p>\n
Some of the early adopters of this Dual Revelation Theory include Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, and Johann Kepler. It was Galileo who initially tested the boundaries of the Dual Revelation Theory by proposing that, contrary to the teachings of the church, the earth revolved around the sun, rather than the sun revolving around the earth. Galileo was put on house arrest, where he eventually died.<\/p>\n
The church eventually accepted that what they thought the Bible taught was wrong, and that the discoveries of Galileo were right, and many within the church accepted the Dual Revelation Theory.<\/p>\n
Today, as in the time of Galileo, and as in the time of Tertullian, there are Christians on all sides of the spectrum. On the one side are those who believe that all claims to truth which are not founded on Scripture must be categorically rejected. On the other side are those who believe that science has pretty much proved the Bible to be inaccurate and full of mistakes, and is to be viewed just like any other historical document\u2014a good book containing the ideas of slightly confused people from the past. In the middle is a whole spectrum of people who think that while the Bible is true, there are other truths also, and somehow the various sets of truths all come from God and can therefore be reconciled.<\/p>\n
What do you think? Can science and Scripture agree? What happens when they don\u2019t? I’ll write more about this tomorrow, in my post Scripture vs. Science: Who Wins?<\/a><\/p>\n
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