Science cannot prove that the soul or love exists either. The Holy Spirit is as real as any love or any passion ever experienced by man.
Scientists who have accepted Christ and received the gift of the Holy Spirit accept the truth of Jesus Christ, without doubt! It has been proven to some of the greatest scientists the world has ever known, including Sir Isaac Newton the man who invented the scientific process.
I have been a scientist and engineer for over 22 years. Like you I thought all religion was bunkem fantasies to prop up weak characters.
I was dead wrong. When my wife (who is a Jewish mathematician) and I tried an experiment, with sincerity, one night, after seeing the movei The Passion (and hearing the exact words of Christ) we asked Jesus Christ to prove he was real and show us. We asked Him to come into our hearts and let us know the truth.
My wife and I experienced a true epiphany. We could feel the energy of 'something" come into our beings, unlike anything we have every experienced in our lives. It was like electricity. She immediately broke down and wept, shivering with emotions of joy, love and relief.
For me it was not quite so profund, but it was fantastic. It is different for everybody, just like love is different for everybody.
I was 42 years old when this happened to me. I had previously already rejected Catholicism when I was 16. I thought I knew it all.
I was dead wrong. So are you. But no man can convince you, only the words of Christ can do that. There are no scientific measuring instruments we can use to measure love, or measure the presence of the Spirit within our souls.
Souls also cannot be proven to exist by science. But like love and the Spirit, every sense and every bit of reasoning I possess confirm the truth of God and Jesus Christ.
No man can convince another man to be a Christian. That is why, unlike every other religion, you do not become a member by acts of faith, you become a member by simply accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour and in return you are gifted with the presence of the Holy Spirit which will forever change your life.
For me it is not a matter of faith. It has been proven true, to me, and my wife, with as much justification as any scientific theory or proof.
As a scientist I believe one day science will indeed affirm the existence of God and the ability of God to intervene in our 4-dimensional universe through a force, or spirit, perhaps from the other 6-dimensions that science affirms as real but are completely unexplored and not understood.
keep an open mind. Without precise tuning of at least 12 universal constants we would not exist, nor would our universe exist as anything more than a plasma. Not even hydrogen atoms would exist.
It's amazing how real God is, isn't it? My degrees are in chemistry and chemical engineering and I've worked in one scientific field or another since 1984.
As for there not being "a shred of evidence to bolster" the existence of a God, I can only point to what I've seen. I've seen hardened, violent prisoners turned into gentle, loving men. I've seen healings and have experienced them myself. Last winter I had a cold and could not rasp out a word without coughing. A group at church laid hands on me and prayed and I was able to join them after about 15 seconds because all of my symptoms had disappeared. I've seen people give up promising careers to spread the gospel and minister to those in 3rd-world countries. I've seen them return to tell me of miracles -- and how much the enemy fights them. I read stories about how fast Christianity is growing in countries like China and Iran where even owning a Bible can mean certain death. These people aren't dying for something that's phony.
I'm not sure about a lot of things in this world. But I am certain that there is a God and that Jesus Christ came to suffer death for our sins and rise again on the 3rd today.
Well said, Brother!
Mr. Felton.......... that was a very good post.