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+** Age of Science ... **
+We live in an age where insight plays a prominent role. We have science as our main method to explore
+the world. Science is our tool to know nature. And it is a good tool. You ask questions. You try to
+create theories which formulate natural laws and relationships between physical or chemical variables.
+You formulate and carry out experiments. These show you how nature works, when you interpret them
+together with your theories.
+But how do you know about God? He is not part of nature. He has created nature, but you cannot find
+God directly by looking at nature. You can find him by the way it is created, as you learn about an artist
+from his paintings or statues or buildings.
+To learn about God, the holy spirit is very important. He is an indispensible part of this learning
+process. Without the active help of the spirit the mere human mind will find the core Christian
+statements rather strange and unclear and reject them as being a strange set of fancy things.
+But with the active presence of the Spirit of God, a deep and thorough clarity comes into our life.
+There is a lot to say here about this. Life and death, purity, love, truth, humility, goals and desire ...
+all this clarifies itself in the light of the eternal God through his spirit. There is a lot to
+gain and to explore ...
+What does it mean concretely? It means that you need to start to talk to God if you encounter
+problems with understanding him. You need to ask him to help you through the holy spirit. You can call
+it prayer, and it is prayer, but the core point is that you address him and ask him. "God, please
+help me to understand. Please send your spirit into my life. I am open for you, I want to know!"
+If you continue to search, you will find and he will open everything to you!
 (Roland Potthast)
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