HOW GOD ACTS ON AND IN THIS WORLD

The God-ness of God is beyond our human comprehension. How God acts is Godly and it thus behooves one who wishes to fully understand any act of God to somehow share in that Godliness as well. God, according to His own Counsel, does or does not reveal Himself as the Actor behind the action.

Consider this - Saul/Paul, upon hearing the voice of the Lord on the road to Damascus, had to ask for further revelation beyond whatever he heard initially. God remained sovereign in limiting what sense could be made of the sound Saul and his companions heard - Saul comprehended what his companions could not. The Bible explicitly tells us what God's voice sounds like - thunder. The sound made sense only to whomever God directed what He had to say; others who heard could not make sense of what they heard. You can find it in many places in Scripture, OT and NT; use any Bible concordance to look up examples of this. It seems we must "have ears to hear what the Spirit has to say."

Is this not what Scripture teaches in regard to the Spirit and the flesh? Faith fills in the details where fleshly perception falls short. Holy mystery must be so aggravating for faith-deficient scientists. Then again, the logic of scientific discovery (as Karl Popper puts it) often frustrates those who are more mystically-minded. Theology once was called the Queen of sciences, informing and illuminating all other branches of knowledge. King to this queen is the One whom all knowers yearn to know in each of their particular pursuits of knowledge. To deny God is to divorce logic from any likelihood of leading one to Truth. Science needs God in order for scientific discovery to make any sense; theology is the way such sense is understood and communicated.

God, wholly Other, is fully capable of acting as He wills in the world and freely interacting with those in the world. Each scientist is responsible before this Sovereign God to focus the perception of oneself through spiritual eyes of faith rather than fleshly eyes of folly. Scripture plainly teaches that sin darkens one's understanding. Science done with deficient theology is no better than blind faith.