To Look Beyond Ideations

Let us now turn our attention to scepticism, which is too often cast as mere doubt rather than the tool of discovery it is. In a world where ideas have become idols, scepticism becomes the break from their chains enabling us to seek greater things. The more we question, the more we are led toward truth, and this cannot happen through certainty. It requires humility of recognition that we know very little.

Scepticism was never a rejection of faith, least of all in Christ. In its most righteous development, scepticism invites us to seek out deeper understandings. There are indeed some things which are relative, but these things are relevant least of all to Christ. To doubt is to open our minds to new possibilities, to see beyond the limits of assumptions and into the vastness of that most lovely divine order. In so doing, we guard against all-things-relativism.

Adopting such relativism, which is to say relativity too far, means that no truth can ever be absolute. Grace compels us to seek truth not through certainty, but through wonder and a willingness to wonder, and herein is the advantage for scientists who follow Christ. These truths are indeed absolute, and I am sure you can conceive of others easily enough, like love.

The only way to truly embrace truth is to allow ourselves to be sceptics through Christ, against all things but the moderated straight and narrow. Christ and His grace give us the ability to question everything else to find more of the light that reveals what has always been there. By all means, doubt, but do not make a god of cynically based relativism.

The only absolute that can withstand the weight of scepticism is God’s love. Even as we would begin to question the nature of reality, we are still bound by and reliant upon His laws, His structure, and His unchanging will. Have we forgotten the path that leads to truth, which matches the humble journey of the wonderful sceptic? Grace compels us to seek truth, first in ourselves: our own errors and misunderstandings. Divine love demands our scepticism of all that would separate us from this fact and a basic bias toward life.