Words'nTone

“I occasionally wondered if the gospel was myth, but I came to see the gospel as myth fulfilled in reality—in a real time, place and Person.  Science and art reveal the reality of the biblical story.  Astrophysics reveals a beginning and the necessity of an immaterial first cause.  Biochemistry and DNA reveal a ‘language’ of encoded instruction, a logos becoming flesh and blood.  Archaeology and history reveal the Bible as accurate eyewitness accounts of real events, people and places.  What—rather, Who—I experience behind all the beauty seems too good to be false.  Sometimes it’s a haunting.  Sometimes a glory.  The story has what C. S. Lewis called ‘the ring of truth’” [Kelly Monroe Kullberg, Finding God Beyond Harvard: The Quest for Veritas, p. 21].

Kullberg, as someone who went through the battle of keeping her faith at Harvard and fought in the trenches as one who sought veritas, truth, reveals both the positive of debate for the Christian faith and is cryptic in her exposure of atheistic scientism’s weakness.  I found what Kullberg said in her introduction here a great way of expressing that Christianity is open to debate, examination, and tests for validity, empirical consistency and experiential relevance.  Albeit, ultimately the Bible’s message is a matter of faith, but it is not absent reason, nor reasonable proofs.

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