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; v. CONCLUSIONS.
i "The 1nly way the Creator could
have made man to accept nature
without question was to have made
him fool and this his Creator did
not do, but instead presupposed his
questionings and ingenuity. The
Creator gave the wood but man built
the houses; He gave electricity but
not the wires, the dirt but not the
bricks, the COWS but not the shoes,
the gas but not the automobile, the
ocean and compass but not the ships.
God gives to each person mate but
He does not call names.
Man in his Investigations is
bound to hit upon explanations which
satisfy his reason and only such can
long quiet him in his restless search
fer truth The man who consclen-
tiously investigates is JUS IS truly a
son of God as he who takes every
thing at it's face value. 1t is true
that in his efforts to fathom the
meaning of existence, man has made
many mistakes and who knows that
evolution may NOT be numbered
among them in the ages?
But if evolution does not explain
man will not rest until he has solved
the riddle of the universe. Man once
thought that the earth was fiat, but
he was mistaken. He though that
the earth was dhe center of all, but
he hot q
earth follows in the trail of the sun
like valet in the retinue of kings.
Man once thought that the fury Of
the elements was the anger of God,
but he no longer thinks iris for the
fury of elements can be accounted
for scientifically. Man once thought
that moral obligations extended only
to the immediate kin and tribe, but
he has found out that such is a huge
mistake and that morality and obli-
cations should include all human
kind-and animals as we'll. Men once
thought that the Bible contained
all the truth of God, but they have
found that the revelation Of God to
the head is just as important as re-
violation to the heart. All the truth
of God is one.
Mcn have found out that the Bible
was not designed to answer all the
questions of science and philosophy
and that there are many truths Of
God not contained in the Bible. Yet
none will deny the Bible has revela-
.tions of truth not to be found in
nature nor the daily experience CT
the individual Science does not and
cannot answer all the questions Of
the soul nc more than the Bible cen
answer all the questions of the in
tellect' These-the Bible and Science
are the complementary yet partial
revelation of God and there are mYs
teries and mysteries of revealed
ruth waiting for the fulness of time.
" ere arc reason; to hslieve til he
sun of Gods revelation is just rising.
Whether this revelation is extensive
or intensive it does not profit us to
conjecture
2. The whole truth is difficult to
reach. There is the thing as it
seems, as it was, as it ought to be,
as it might be, as men say it is, as
men would have it, as we think it is
but the truth is THE THING AS
1T is. So many chances of our ar
irving at the wrong conclusions.
8. The discovery of God is ulti-
mately inevitable. Whether we seek
the truth of existence through
science Or religion we ultimately ar
rive at the same conclusions namely;
that there is some myst erious reality
behind all we say and see and feel
l use feel in a philosophic sense.
There is some basic principle which
explains and unifies all. Philoso-
piers and scientists and religionis.s
have all arrived at this mysterious
conclusion that the ultimate reality
defies finite comprehension. The
scientist finally concludes with in
finitesmally minute particles Of mat
ter-electric discharges which defy
further analysis. Some hold that
these particles are material and
some that they are spiritual.
"In philosophy Thales found be-
hind all water as the basic principle
of existence; Anaximander found at
mosphere; Anaximines found breath
as this basic stuff Heraclitus found
fire as he digged through the mys-
terry of existence. Xenophanes found
what he called the Infinite One;
Parminides found the All One En-
pedocles found Love; AnaXagoras
found Mind; Socrates found Truth:
Plato found The Idea; Spinoza found
Substance; Leibnitz found The Monad
of Monads; Kant found das ding an
SIGH: Hegel found Reason.
"And so they all found the basic
reality to defy further analysis.
These philosophers gave attributes
to this basic reality after such fash
ion as to suggest the attributes of
God. The ultimate reality was re-
garded as eternal, infinite, immuta-
BILE, omnipresent, self-suficient, a
unity. The God of the Bible is not