Faith

I was thinking recently what we really mean by this word. It is believing in something that can’t be proved, yes. But it is more than that. It means putting oneself in the hands of a person or a thing. It could be God.. or it could be a bungee rope that hadn’t been tested before!

Since the predominant theme of this website is Christian. Let’s look at what we mean by faith in God.

All my adult life, I have been asked to suspend belief and put my faith in God. I used to imagine that he was outside our realm of physics, in a completely different dimension, as I imagined heaven. But in my recent “conversion” to looking at religion from a scientific point of view, I can imagine a God complying with the laws of nature both known now and in the future. This is the crux of many arguments about such things which are often dismissed as fairy tales. Because something doesn’t comply with science as we know it in 2024, then it is some kind of fantasy. If something has no explanation in currently known physics, it is nonsense. But that argument is nonsense. Are we saying that we have arrived at the end of our search, and there is nothing else to discover?

So, my faith in God doesn’t actually require a belief in some kind of ethereal world “up there”. God is here, all around us, connecting us all together. Call it dark matter, call it morphic resonance, there is something there. And it explains many so called “fairy tales”.