Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
PROVE ALL THINGS
PROVE ALL THINGS
Unless theory is backed by reality it can never be proven nor secured; it will be forever in flux, in disputes, in innumerable controversies. That is because there is nothing backing it.
Many of the early church doctrinal, theological, disputes have struck me as being of this messy nature.
The ancient Ethiopians and Egyptians used the stars as guides as proofs as foundations for their calendar, agriculture, religion; for their surveying, their geometry, for navigating, for their hagiography of pharaonic succession and more .
The book of Thessalonians says "prove all things." 1 Thessalonians 5:21 King James Version (KJV)
21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Dr. George Washington Carver lifted the renown of Tuskegee Institute by using plants secrets that they "communicated" to him to revolutionize southern crop rotation and save it from destruction; and to educate farmers on economics. He invented the field of chemurgy, deriving hundreds of offshoot synthetic products from natural products like peanuts, soybeans and more.
Tied in here are the heavens, the earth and the word of God. Use all things natural to prove all others. Back up all assertions with proof!