Which reminds me of something. I’ve heard that science is just another path to God: that you can understand God by understanding what he created, and not just the Bible and so forth. However, can you really understand Rembrandt or da Vinci by their paintings? Or Edison by the light bulb? Wouldn’t it be better to study their writings if that was your purpose?
“However, can you really understand Rembrandt or da Vinci by their paintings? Or Edison by the light bulb? Wouldn’t it be better to study their writings if that was your purpose?”
I imagine that BOTH are important. I’m not sure how much Edison wrote - but I imagine some of it is pretty technical and pretty dry. Some is probably his thoughts and dreams - many I suppose that were never realized. On the other hand - just switching on a light in the kitchen is no big deal all by itself.
BUT - go through Edison museum down in Florida (Ft. Meyers? It’s been years) and go through it and read about him and all of his variety of efforts - and then see a light bulb that has been burning there and left on for 60 years or whatever - that is something, and gives one a sense of amazement of who Edison was and what he did.
“However, can you really understand Rembrandt or da Vinci by their paintings?”
My point exactly.
While the Bible is an excellent tool to understand God, the best method is to follow Jesus’ teachings and become “One” with God, just as Jesus described in John 14.
Oneness with the Father
7 If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.”
8 Philip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus *said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me?
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 After a little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live also. 20 In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.