About Faith - Part I (Science is good, God is better!)

(Caros leitores, esta postagem é em inglês para que meus amigos estrangeiros possam ler algo aqui também. Esta mensagem eu escrevi há muito tempo prum amigo de um amigo que costumava me escrever pra falar de fé e assuntos relacionados. Lembrei desta mensagem e resolvi postá-la. Vou dividir em duas partes pra não ficar muito longa).

Hey guys, after a long time, here I am with a post written in English. Actually, it is an e-mail I wrote to a friend's friend some time ago. We used to talk about faith - he had some doubts and wanted to know why I was so sure and strong about my faith. Hopefully, it will be interesting for you to read and think about. Leave your comment, if you like.

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 Hey "friend" 

Blablablabla...

... So I want to share with you some of my thoughts about faith. 

This would be a huge message if I had to write down everything I would like to. I will try to summarize. Hehe... Even so, perhaps you'll need a week to read it all...

I’m a Christian and I believe 100% in the Bible’s God!

Well... I liked the paragraph you wrote about it and I know what you mean. I think all intelligent people have an up and down relationship with their faith, but it occurs in different levels for each one. I do question many things, I research, I read lots; but nothing has stopped my faith!

I’m sure we will never have 100% proves of God’s existence and Bible’s words. However, you may be 100% sure because you feel, because you know that the science does not have all the answers. There are many things beyond what we can't see. I believe that we’ll never be able to understand all the things. Not during this life!

There will never be proves enough to make everybody believes in God! And I love it. This is the plan! You won’t believe because the science and the scientific books are telling you that all that is true. You will believe in God because you feel right, because there isn’t any another explanation for all this, for the Nature – mountains, Oceans, flowers and fruits (different shapes and colours – why this variety if not comes from a very creative and loving God?); how you are inside – stomach, heart, blood, intestines, lungs, etc; and how you are outside – 2 ears and 1 mouth (to listen to more than talk), 2 arms to give a nice hug… He made the basic things but He is so good, that He gave us different body shapes, hair colours, etc. 

Some people will "choose" God, others not!

I have some doubts about many things. I’ve found out many answers for them, but some questions I know that will remain with me forever, because it depends on faith.

You need to have faith to believe in Science or to believe in God! Moses, Joshua, Paul and John wrote about many miracles and about God. I wasn’t there to see and to make sure those were true. I have to trust them. However, when I was in High School studying Chemistry, Biology or Physics, I used to ask many questions about the scientists, the tests, the experiments… Many questions about the theories the teachers were telling us. That was like: “well teacher, you are telling me many things about oxygen, genetic, chromosomes, electromagnetism, neutrons, electrons, quartz, cells, gravity, etc; but did you see all the experiments in laboratories? Were you there when Lamarck, Darwin, Einstein, Newton, Watts (most of them believed in God), whoever were writing those studies? I know you weren’t, then I conclude that you need to have faith on all those scientists, all those strange people. It would be a bit difficult for us to experiment in laboratory all those theories. You've got to think that they were good people, competent scientists and they wouldn’t lie about it all! You will never see them, you don’t know about their character, but you have faith”! 

"Friend", I chose to have faith - in God! God created the men who developed the Science… Then, I believe that at the end is everything from God, by God, due to God, according to God! Heheh… I wasn’t there when the Bible’s books were written, but I believe is everything from God! I think that the Science proves many things and explain many things which are in the Bible, but after all my studies, the Science has never got me to go against the Bible. People interpret the Book in a wrong way and sometimes the Science helps us to develop our interpretation about the Bible. I don’t believe the Universe was created in 6 days. I believe that was in 6 eras. I don’t believe God took ‘sand’ and made us by His own hands. That is a symbol! How would God explain the creation to Moses for him to write Geneses more than 2000 years ago? He should use some symbols, because at that time, Moses didn’t know deeply about Chemistry or Physics… God is so wise! He uses other ways… Science is good, God is better! :) 

(to be continued)