Yesterday, I was
discussing with an older friend of mine about what my plans for the holiday
were. I told him that I had a couple of books on the brain, Vibrations and
electricity to read. In the course of our discussion he mentioned something I
strongly disagree with. He said “everything on earth is controlled by the
supernatural”. Though I wasn’t able to totally convince him, probably because
that was the idea registered in his brain but just hear me out first. I wonder
why some people tag some aspects of science such as artificial intelligence,
telekinesis, levitation, telepathy, mind-reading, etc as demonic. To me, they
can be described as pure science whose researches are still going on.
The word Supernatural
is attributed to a phenomena that cannot be explained by natural laws and when
I talk of natural laws, I am referring to a law of morality believed to be
derived from human beings’ inherent sense of right and wrong, rather than from
revelation or the legislation produced by the society. A natural law can just
be summed up as a law that governs the behavior of natural phenomena. Science
on the other hand refers to the sturdy of the “Physical” and “natural” world
and phenomena, especially by systematic observation and experiment. That is the
knowledge gained by the sturdy of “Physical” world.
The greatest gift that was given to man by God as at
creation is Free Will which is the power of independent action and choice. The
ability to act or make choices as a free and autonomous being and not solely as
a result of compulsion or predestination. When you do things of your own free
will, you are not being forced by somebody or something else. In fact, that
free will was given to us to the extent that man is able to decide whether or
not to serve God and keep is rules while here on earth. To quite a number of people, my point of view
may be fascinating because I respect the fact that there is a God who is a
supreme being.
Though God sees every action of ours, he does not interfere
unnecessarily .My definition of “unnecessary” here is God interferes only when
necessary and a situation is necessary only when He decides and says it is.
Since God created man and has the whole world under His feet, if he decides to
interfere in every action of man, then there will be no wrong in this world.
Everybody will be perfect because we were created in God’s image and
likeness and God is Perfect. But the
Bible in Mattew 4:48 quoted Jesus who is the son of God and is presently
sitting at the right hand of God saying:
“Be ye perfect, even as your father which is
in heaven is perfect.”
If God actually
controls every decision man makes, we will not be told to be perfect. We will
be naturally wired to be perfect and do good here on earth and then there will
be no hell and no book of life. God interferes only in situations and decisions
he decides to.
Since I have been able to make you understand that the
supernatural doesn’t totally interfere with the physical, let us look into the
bible once again. The bible in the book of Genesis 1:22 says:
“And God blessed them and God said unto them, be
fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living
thing that moves upon the earth.”
Has it ever occurred to anyone that when God said be
fruitful, he didn’t just mean ‘Give Birth’? He meant BE FRUITFUL! . Fruitful
according to the dictionary means to be highly productive or creative. If God
planned to interfere in every action of man, he wouldn’t have blessed man to be
fruitful. He would have just wired man to be fruitful but He did not. Instead,
he blessed man. Be Fruitful. Be creative! Use your brain! Invent! Create! And
up till today, no man, not even king Solomon has been able to use 100% of his
brain. Therefore, God has given man permission to create things. Psalm 82 :6
says:
“I have said, ye are gods; and all of you are
children of the most high.”
We are gods! Though
we are under God and worship Him, we are still smaller gods. Therefore, if we
create things that make life easier for us through the just use of science, we
are not doing anything wrong.
God said Subdue the
earth. To subdue the earth means to forcibly put the earth under control. It
means to soften the earth something. To make the earth less intense. easier for
man and to make the earth work for man. In other to achieve this, we have to go
through a careful study of the earth. That is where science comes in.
I cannot totally say the supernatural has no effect on
science. Let us take for example Telephones. I don’t know about your country
but in my country Nigeria, some of our forefathers that were into the African
Priesthood were already talking to each other from different parts of the world
through the use of calabashes, white cloths and some incantations. in short,
most of the time, it was a video call. The truth is if you as a religious man
now used it with them then, you would have been said to have committed a sin
against God but with time, man was able to create telephones and make calls
this time, without sinning against God.
Science has really been useful to man and I must say, there
is a line between the supernatural and science. Man and Man ONLY control
science. If anybody says an invention is ‘demonic’, as far as it can be
scientifically proven, then the person is totally WRONG!
Join me tomorrow .. I just might be discussing another controversial
topic. Remember, I love you . bye. :)
(ff@joeloseiga)
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