Isaiah 28:14-22 ESV
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem! [15] Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter"; [16] therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.' [17] And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter." [18] Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it. [19] As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message. [20] For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in. [21] For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed-strange is his deed! and to work his work-alien is his work! [22] Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts against the whole land.
2 Timothy 3:1-8 ESV
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. [2] For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, [4] treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [5] having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. [6] For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, [7] always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. [8] Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
Science is able to *disprove*
this kind of explanation.
From Forbes article:
"...it’s completely impossible to prove anything in science."
Because science only disproves, and never proves, it is not right to trust in science for the building up of knowledge. Instead, science is used to refine error down to a manageable level.
Since God is Truth, this "manageable level of error" which satisfies the worldly thinker and the mind at friendship with the world, is analogous to the "agreement with death" which God speaks against in Isaiah 28.
1 Corinthians 2:9-16 ESV
But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"- [10] these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. [11] For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. [12] Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. [13] And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. [14] The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. [15] The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. [16] "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
Romans 8:5-8 ESV
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. [6] For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. [7] For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. [8] Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Philippians 3:19 ESV
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
Matthew 16:23 ESV
But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man."
Philippians 4:8 ESV
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Science is not able to tell us anything
about these kinds of explanations.
2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV
as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Things that can be seen
Things that are not seen
All explanations
Kind of thing being explained
Explanations for
physical things
Kinds of explanations
Physical explanations
for physical things
Testable or Untestable
Testable physical explanations
for physical things
Accountable or unaccountable
explanations
Testable physical explanations
for physical things,
which man is able to account for
Testable physical explanations
for physical things,
which man cannot account for
Untestable physical explanations
for physical things
"Molecules to man" macroevolutionary explanations of the diversity of life in the world, are untestable, and therefore unscientific. This, too, is a product of materialistic religious dogma.
The "big bang" explanation for the beginning of the world is untestable, and therefore unscientific. The "big bang" is a materialistic religious explanation for the beginning of the world.
Spiritual explanations
for physical things
We learn from the Bible that physical things proceed from spiritual things. There are no physical principalities. Everything in the physical world is a procession from something spiritual..
Science can say nothing at all about whether or not this is so, and neither can science tell us how physical things proceed from spiritual things.
God renders to man according to his ways. The Bible teaches that truth is the substance of the spiritual body, so that flesh is to the the physical body, as truth is to the spiritual body. The physical body represents the spiritual body, so that deficiencies in the spiritual body are reflected by deficiencies in the physical body.
Since science is only cognizant of material principalities of health, science is blind to the spiritual principlal of health and wholeness (Truth). Scientists who ignore Scripture mistakenly regard the physical principals as first principals, rather than the secondary principals that they really are.
Proverbs 4:23 ESV
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
Explanations for
spiritual things
Science can give no explanation for things that are intelligible but insensible, because science relies on sensible observations.
Love
Joy
Goodness
Life
Truth
Justice
Spirit
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