And, just as we usually miss our nose thanks to our looking at everything else around us, often we miss the simple truth that calls us to her.
Down the centuries since Christ, mankind has been split between two camps: those who rely on faith and those who rely on reason. For fifteen hundred years faith held sway and for the last five hundred reason, and yet they are not mutually exclusive.
It is reasonable to be faithful to sound reason and, like St. Thomas Aquinas believed, we can use our reason to accept our faith as a matter of common sense.
While most of the Christian world accepted the existence of God and all that entails on faith alone (accepting an occasional Thomas the Apostle doubter who insisted on 'reasonable' proof) for those first 15 centuries, enlightened man now insists on reason, in the form of science, to justify belief.
How lucky those who lived to see Christ live and die and rise from the tomb. They experienced proof positive and didn't need to rely on faith alone. Scientific proof if ever there was any.
How nice it would be if we had a similar scientific proof to justify our faith.
But wait...what is that I hear...the angel's trumpet announcing that God has provided man with just such a scientific proof? And, it has been with us since Christ rose from the dead and it has withstood modern man's science to reveal the truth of faith?
Behold the shroud of Turin. http://shroud.com
The more science examines the shroud, the more its authenticity is established. It is as if God, in His infinite wisdom, has provided his greatest creature the ability to use his greatest attribute, reason, to prove the verity of faith. A celestial jigsaw puzzle that solves the mystery of faith using the very tools man has used for five hundred years in a vain attempt to disprove God's existence. What a beautiful irony.
A scientific proof for a faithless age.
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