Pense: Why The Rainbow?

By Sam Tatum and Doretha Motton

"Why The Rainbow" teaches intellectual faith, the facts of belief. It investigates and compare scientific creation to biblical creation, natural law with moral law, the intellectual construction of love, and so much more. We can move closer to God by knowing him more intimately, as is the nature of all successful and nurturin

• Language: English
• Publisher: devvon House Publishing
• Release date: Sep 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9780966774849

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Tatum, Sam 1964 –

PENSE: Why The Rainbow?

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1. Bible Commentaries – Spirituality

2. Christian Life

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PENSE: why the rainbow? © 2015 by Sam Tatum

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Pense: why the rainbow?

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

istoría tis sofías (history of wisdom) Histories

Initial Condition

Euphoria

Madness is

From Light

The Chaos

The Revelation

Soulful Expansion

From Darkness

Introduction to Love

The Construct of Love

from Darkness to Light

All From The One

The First Parent

History of Creation

Moses

The Creation Event

The Photon Epoch

The Opaque Universe

Laws

Systems

Books

Why The Rainbow?

Noah

Acknowledgement

I could think of no better place to begin to be grateful than with my beautiful wife, Doretha. She is the constant in my life who supports my research, my late nights and also my shut–ins when I am working away in a dark office lit by nothing but a computer monitor. I could never count the keyboard clicks, the saved notes, clippings, or revisions. There is so much science, so many philosophical disciplines, and so many generations of great thinkers. There is no true way to exhaust the mountainous knowledge that is preserved in archives, dusty and rotting books or in the minds of elders. I have learned that it is a classic truth when someone said that the death of an elder is as the burning of a vast library. And I search, and I read, and I analyze so many things, finding the binds that tie them together, investigating the investigations. I’m searching out the links of the abstract and conceptual to the solid, and the solid to the moral fiber. It is difficult to ask anyone to understand this process. But, my wife has proven to be the better part of me, the part that is strong like rows of pilasters, and her heart, the inner court of her, is a peristyle, and I bask in her pools. So often she has quietly come in and left food at the corner of my desk, careful to not say a word or to make the least sound of a person sneaking about. In the beginning, when she was at first learning about my approach to theology, she would look at me with such a concerned face, leaving me to wonder about what was going on behind those gorgeous brown eyes. She’d ask questions. She would make suggestions. And, as she began to see the bigger picture of my process, she became my editor, and moreover my accountability partner and literary critic. I can think of no greater assistant than someone as loving, intelligent, enlightened and gifted in the workings of the human mind, and the capturing of the human heart.

Dedication

To God, who has shown me that He is more than just an idea or a sentiment, but a person more real than anyone I have ever known.

To my wife, a woman greater than all gifts, more plentiful than all books, and more fitted together in her mind and heart than the powerful citadel.

To my mother for demonstrating to me that the soul is to be cherished more than the body, the mind more than force, and prayer more than food.

To my father who is with the Lord, he nurtured me in the church and imparted to me the beautiful eloquence of the contemplated gospel.

To all who labor in the gospel, its truths, and do not turn away from it.

What man translates as destruction,

God has given to us as new beginnings.

— Sam Tatum

Preface

Growing up as a child I would inquire what are rainbows. Where did they come from? I patently remember two reasons were explained to me and I have to acknowledge that one was rather disturbing and the other was a bit more stimulating to hear. The somewhat disturbing reason I heard was associated to the Bible. I was told that, following the rapture, which I would be a part of, God would annihilate the earth with fire instead of water like he’d done in the days of Noah. As a child that story totally blew my mind and I often speculated how something as beautiful as a rainbow could represent such devastation. The somewhat interesting reason I’d heard was that a little green leprechaun would soar up into the sky, put a little bucket at the end of the rainbow and catch gold coins. This was a story I could live with because the only coins I was acquainted with at that time were either copper or silver. Gold coins! I was sold on this theory and green was my favorite color. But then I began to contemplate, how would I, as a child, be able to fly up into the sky while holding a bucket? Precisely what is a leprechaun? Why is it green? That story perplexed me, so I had to search out something else that essentially made sense. I finally came to my own deduction that after every rain, there is a rainbow. Sounds good, right? Well, that too turned out to not be exact. I would look for a rainbow after every rain, and it would not consistently be there. Therefore, reason #3 proved to not be a certainty. I was still a child so I quickly moved on with my inquiry, but that difficulty always lingered in the back of my mind.

Recently, someone very dear to me passed away. After the medics had confirmed my brother–in–law departed, the funeral home staff arrived to take his body away from the family home. Myself, other grief-stricken family members and close friends said our initial good-byes as Mark was being maneuvered toward the hertz. The rain had been falling for the past hour and as it abated, a beautiful rainbow appeared over the home. Then it hit me! That’s the purpose for rainbows! If someone passes away on a rainy day, as a token of respect, a rainbow will appear. But, I knew from my previous suppositions that I could either Google it, or I could read this book. Thankfully, I chose the latter and was so amazed to find out why picturesque rainbows happen after a rain. I was astonished to find out how simplistic the reason actually is, which brings to mind why I am overjoyed to have had the opportunity to introduce readers to this remarkable author, my husband, Sam Tatum.

Growing up in a Christian home with very strong Christian beliefs, I thought I comprehended the bible hands down. My childhood consisted of going to church, at times this meant Sunday through Friday. As a youth, I often had questions about stories in the Bible and the answers provided, by many, would frequently be over my head. One of my favorite questions to ask was, What wheel did Ezekiel see way up in the sky if there were no airplanes at that time? After many years I began to think that the Bible might be too complex for anyone to altogether understand. As an adult, I branched out and heard other ministries that referred to the ‘spiritual interpretations’ of the Bible. I began to actually comprehend their rationalizations instead of becoming more muddled. Soon, I realized that the bible does in fact provide both spiritual and literal meanings, and both are acceptable in God’s eyes. I was amazed that I had never known this.

Throughout the bible we are given parables of morality based on natural things such as the sewing of seeds being representative of the kingdom of heaven. But, without enlightened spiritual interpretation, we lack any moral knowledge pertaining to the existence of the rainbow.

To inform readers that science and philosophy are not adverse to God in heaven, Sam Tatum provides the definition of philosophy as all intellectual reasoning in science, arts, mathematics, architecture, music and theology. He describes science as facts pertaining to nature, the world and all of existence. With science being facts and philosophy being reasoning, the spiritual beauty of the rainbow goes beyond both of these. Why The Rainbow? What is the moral reason for it? This is completed in theology.

Hence Pense.

— Doretha Motton-Tatum

Introduction

THE LOGICAL LEAP FORWARD. Science is logical. Psychology, the arts, architecture, parenting, teaching, medicine and all functions of useful skills are all based on logic. They are also logical in that they are needed, and their functions serve logical purposes, and it is only logical in concept and practice for to have them. They are the learned wisdoms. And the father of these is theology whose first child is philosophy and beneath him are all the others. We can readily see within this investigation that theology is the biblical God. And philosophy is the biblical Adam. And Adam, as in scripture whose charge it was to subdue, to master the earth in power and knowledge, was the first father of all other men, interpreted to us in this context as scholarly disciplines. As philosophy has been fruitful, fathering many nations of disciplines, we see biblical order, as men have covered the earth. From one nation under God, we have many. From one tongue – many. From one bloodline – many. &c.

History has shown us that man's first intellectual investigation of why are we here has always begun in the larger scope of God. This too is logical and an undeniable part of our history. It is the starting place of all the other things that we know, and it is the foundation of what makes us human.

Some who view history say that mythology came first, and then came science. In a broad agnostic sense this is palatable. But to those who have truly given their attention to scripture and the history of it, and to the gravity of sincere reason beyond heroic debate, that simple proclamation is unacceptable. The truth that is buried in that simple statement is that first there was God, and there was the innocent and often ignorant and/or negligent recognition of him by man. It is so true and so often proved that God the creator, who is essence and existence, is always first and foremost. We can better understand today's scholar's neglect of the idea of God through understanding scripture, because this order is founded in scripture, burrowed deep in the creation event, but more evident in the reciting of Adam and Eve.

I am indebted to a lofty ambition. In the writing of PENSE, I sit down to a blank page in the hopes of building upon the biblical manner. Science is and always has been an essential ingredient in the foundational mortar of structured education. In the days of the writing of the biblical books, science was to man the knowledge of nature, and the corresponding manner of the operation of nature was good for instructing the manner of men and their laws. It was common in that day that those who knew the mysterious eloquence of the operation of nature were to translate that knowledge into serviceable, and ethical, laws of men. And they were the wise that prophesied by the stars, and they advised when to plant and when to reap. Because men are intellectual, we are naturally unlike nature, but our superiority is in our understanding nature through the observance of its laws. Through this, the ancients were raised above the beasts and cattle, because their adherence to law was of a oneness with nature that was not feral, but the relationship was analogous to brotherhood because it was willed reciprocation, by choice, civilized, and refined (as shown as Adam dressing the Garden of Eden). For example: a lion will not care for a cub that is not his own, and neither did nations take in resident strangers or keep alive denizens of invaded cities. {viz. ref. Nahum KJV} Citizenship had to be granted so to assure the protection and care of the court.

The Spirit of Laws:

Antecedent to the above-mentioned laws are those of nature,

so called, because they derive their force entirely from our frame and existence.

In order to have a perfect knowledge of these laws, we must consider man before the establishment of society: the laws received in such a state would be those of nature.

The law which, impressing on our minds the idea of a Creator,

inclines us towards Him, is the first in importance…¹

— Montesquieu

The Essays

To pass from theological and philosophical truth, to the truth of civil business;

it will be acknowledged even by those that practice it not,

that clear and round dealing is the honour of man’s nature;

and that mixture of falsehood is like allay in coin of gold and silver,

which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.

For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent;

which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason,

why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge?

Saith he, ‘If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say,

as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.’²

— Bacon

Doth not even nature itself teach you,

that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?

But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her:

for her hair is given her for a covering.³

— Paul

In the reading of scripture, we encounter God speaking symbolically, referencing many terms from nature such as storms, beasts, pregnancy, birth, &c. It is of the rarest occasion to encounter God speaking casually as he did with Moses on Sinai. And, even so, God’s words, even in simplicity, are always fecundated with complexity of spiritual relativeness, because there is no emptiness to be found in him. We read of sentencing and judgment, and these compare with natural law, and the understanding of these laws point to heavenly principles of regeneration.

1 Corinthians 5:3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

The nature of this statement from the apostle Paul concerning a Christian that has become indebted to the egregious sin of adultery, Paul stating that he can well judge this person, is due to natural phenomena, and outlined in the Mosaic law, making it plain to Paul that there are things of men that can be judged by men, and righteousness can be accomplished through this type of intellectual insight. In the Torah is written, "And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death." In nature, God has created everything, and informed us that the seed of perpetuation of a species is in every living thing that he created. Man, through insight of scientific natures, cross breeds animals and plants to achieve his own desired results, opposed to what God has given, and has said to be very good. The union of a thing’s seed representing truth, and the insemination of the seed in the earth, or a proper body, is representative of truth taking root in the will, the passion needed for truth to propagate into righteous actions, righteous actions represented in nature by edible fruit. And the Christian believes that God has given to man perfect truth, but man distorts the truth, because his will does not autonomously harmonize with God’s will. The greatest sin found in man, due to his heightened reason, is in adulterating truth with deceptive subtlety. In nature, a living thing that is adulterated is a thing that is diseased. A thing that is diseased in nature, by natural law, dies.

This is the principle of the judgment of the Mosaic Law as addressing adultery and fornication. The perfect union of things in nature as to seeding and perpetuation are in compliance to the perfect order of natural law, and natural judgment is instantaneous. Man does not often think of things in nature as being subject to judgment, though we so commonly recognize nature as governed by law. And things subject to law are subject to judgment. And, things subject to judgment are accountable to a judge. Then, as to the body of Christ, we may, if we will, see the correspondence of natural law in perfect conformity with the Law of Christ to love God most of all, and to love the neighbor as much as self, and to care for his condition more than personal comfort. We must be reminded that man has never considered natural law and decided that he will make it holy judgment, because he appreciates its orderliness. Instead, natural law is holy because a holy God institutes it. Natural law is not holy because God loves it, but God loves it because it is holy. Therefore is judgment in the body of man, and we know of it today as the immune system, and the body’s natural defenses. Natural law predicates that the human body will host no foreign bodies that come into it, but those foods that conform to its health. And, if a limb is diseased, or adulterated by foreign entities, the body attempts to heal the diseased limb. If the limb resists healing, then, the force of life is withdrawn from that limb, and it is destroyed. And, we know so well, that if that destroyed limb remains attached to the body, its diseases, and its destruction, will infect the entirety of the body, rendering it useless, deformed, and subject to the judgment of death. Life will remove itself from a body that is damaged beyond usage. When considering the natural functions of the body, we can better envisage Paul’s statements in 1 Corinthians, chapter 5, as making judgment of fornicators, and to remove them from the body of the church.

Under the Mosaic Law, where there was no recognition of spirituality but of works and judgment, those that broke the holy edicts by works were subject to the works of the edicts of natural mortality. Under the fulfillment of the law by Jesus, we come into the understanding of the further depths of spirituality, and that death is spiritual, because, to destroy a physical entity is not to destroy life. In nature, a husbandman may burn his fields, and the outcome is fertile ground. Floodwaters may destroy a land, but life springs up, again. Under the Mosaic Law, this was demonstrated by the sacrifice of living animals. Under the teachings of Jesus and the apostles, we learn that the destruction of the physical body is not the end of the spirit, and it is the spirit that is judged by spiritual judgment and not the physical body, because the physical body is subject to natural law. The body, then, is a mere reflection of the state of the soul, and the actions of the body are mere manifestations of a diseased will. In this, I put forth that what is natural is a reflection to what is spiritual. Scripture teaches that there is a natural destruction, because all of nature is subject to birth, decay and dissolution. We are taught that there is a natural judgment, and the physical bodies that are subject to physical laws are subject to the laws of dissolution, decay and rot. Those bodies that are subject to spiritual law are subject to eternal existence, and infinite longevity. Under the Law, sins performed in the body were subject to physical destruction of the body, because all matters were of works and subjectivity to natural order. Under Christ, all became spiritual, and the sins of the body, though still subject to natural law, were now subject to a separate judgment from what law was more prevalent in the spirit, and the motive of the soul faced a separate judgment than what law ruled over the natural actions.

Luke 9:53 But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. 54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did? 55 But He turned and rebuked them, and said, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.

John 9:1 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

3 Jesus answered, Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.

Paul, teaching that a person who is a Christian but found to be diseased by sin, must have his flesh committed to Satan, death, for the saving of the spirit. The church is in no wise commanded to penalize a person to physical execution, but the separation of the person from the church, as an irreformable, diseased or unserviceable appendage is amputated, preserves the health of the church, and microcosmically, is preservation for the estranged member who must then judge himself, in and of himself. And he must ferret out the sin, and this through penitence, and subjection of his flesh to righteous works through a rehabilitated mind. This is the mortality of the flesh, which is the evil works from the flesh, so that a person can live through works from the proper order established in the integrity of God’s law.

Man is an analytical creature by design. Per our present context, we analyze in one of two manners: we either analyze matters of ethical law with God as the foundation of our understanding, or we analyze matters from our own understanding without God as our foundation. The law of God is founded on the greatest of simplicity. He commands us to love. From the simple initial condition of human interaction with man, and with God, grow the greatest of complexity. We have been examining regeneration, and reformation by destruction, based on natural law. If we conclude that it is God who is the founder of law, then we conclude that the end of the mortal body is not the end of life, but we will live again either to peace or misery. Of the many conclusions based on man’s observation of natural law, without God as the foundation, is the heresy of reincarnation. Many say that man, based on the natural law that physicality is not truly destroyed, but is merely regenerated again into usefulness, have concluded this to be the fate of man; that we have former lives. The one argument against this form of thinking, that the eternity of the soul is based on the eternalness of the elements, is that the elements are not eternal because they had a beginning. Life is not subject to temporal matters, is not present because physicality has commanded it, but is completely and utterly opposite of death. Life, then, as seen in the husbandman burning his crops, manifests itself in physical elements. But, physicality, burned or destroyed, cannot somehow, from death, create life. And, if the husbandman has burned his fields because they were choked of weeds and fruitless trees, will he not plant other seeds in the ashes, and grow crops of good vegetables, sweet grapes, and groves of trees bearing sweet fruit? And if he does not reform the soil, will he not again see wild and untamed things grow? And, if he does not keep his grounds, and procure the good things and separate out the evil, will the tares not eventually choke his good things, rendering his fields useless? And, his fields are not obligated to one crop, so that the foods die there, and are reborn. But, they are ripened, and are taken into barns, and made into wine, and presented at feasts. And other seed are planted in the fields, and other good foods are grown. The natural body that has its purposeful life removed will have other life seeded, when the husbandman again tills the dust in the garden of the womb, and plants the seed of a living soul.

If we review the conclusion of law, we find that the decrees of all nations are founded on the constitution that men should be virtuous lovers of God, all other men, and of the earth. Yet, the complexity from this simplistic declaration is born as to how this love should be ethically disseminated in equitable fairness. To add to the complexity born from this singularity of love, is the equitable judgment of those who break the law. Great destruction of simplicity is from those who do not understand the laws of the land as based on the laws of nature, appallingly interpreting law because they do not see the divinity of them as coming from God. Divisive complexity is born from those who say that God should not be the founder of the government, should not be at the core of ethics, and his name is abominable to the public interest. Hence, we witness the birth of relative truth of government. These are subjective interpretation of law, and public interests that are subject to the ruling social value. The ruling value affects the accepted rule of thumb based on the varying public interest.

SCIENCE AND VALUES-

Professor Edward L. Thorndike

The Assignment of Weights

More weight should be given to the wants of superior men than to the wants of inferior men. What able and good men want is much more likely to be better for their community or nation or race or the world as a whole than what stupid and bad men want … it should lead them to have more offspring, and this will improve the world by increasing its percentage of good men.

It is special importance to attach great weight to the wants of those individuals who have eminent abilities in the impersonal activities of art, science and the management of men … They will doubtless sometimes want what is not good for their work or the world; but their judgment will on the whole be a good guide when knowledge of consequences is lacking.

It seems probable that the harmful vagaries of men of genius in the fine arts would have been much reduced if their cravings for untrammeled expression in art itself and for approval of their real merits had been more fully satisfied. It also seems at least possible that the ruthlessness and selfishness of some men of genius in business and government would have been reduced if they had been given power more and been less required to extort it by force. Even if these creators continue to seek occasionally eccentric, ignoble or ruthless satisfactions, it will still be an excellent bargain for the world to attach great weight to their wants as a whole. The world’s greatest folly has been its treatment of those who are most superior to it in intellect, originality, sensitiveness and humaneness. Its most prudent investment is to find them out early, and give them whatever they need to do their perfect work. One good clue to what they need is what they themselves desire.

Human Wants

The work of science of values, a realistic ethics, is to learn what men want and how to improve their wants, and to trace the consequences of acts, events, ideas, attitudes, etc.

Tracing Consequences

The consequences of events, especially of the ideas and acts of men, to the satisfactions of mankind, need study by all the sciences of man and nature.

Non-scientific estimates are sadly untrustworthy …

The more fully he can turn the world into a progression of events devoid of chance, unswerved from its onward march by any magic, the more he can control it. If man should know himself as fully as he knows the chemicals he puts into a test-tube, so that he could predict the exact reaction he would make to any situation, he would be better able to control and improve his own future than any race of men or gods has ever been.

The world needs the insights and values of great sages and dreamers … But it also needs scientific methods to test the worth of the prophets’ dream, and scientific humanists to inform and advise its men of affairs and to advise them not only about what is, but about what is right and good.

History has proven over and over, that those who extort power and control are those least worthy of having it. In an effort to not throw a disparage on persons of letters as a whole, these conclusions by one imminent man gives evidence of the impractical manner in which many persons think. The respectability of the fields of science is not in question, because they are noble undertakings. But, as the course of history goes, and as outlined in the bible, men always loose sight of the roots when indulging in the fruit. It is a natural occurrence.

The science of assigning value and determining consequence, and determining the value of the consequence based on the social esteem of the person. Is there any true method in which men can say what values of men are of worth, and which values are pointless? If I am an inamorato of antiquated books whose arguments I hold in esteem because of those persons’ proximity to historical religious events, am I allowed to denigrate the person who is indebted to modern day philosophy, and its interactivity upon canonical scripture? In Science and Values, there are glaring generalizations made of Christianity, showing that, from a scientific view of Christian values, no scientific methods had ever been laid to Christian principles. In analyzing differing values for differing cultures, the author states, "The saint may weigh the satisfactions of any other Christian as equal to his own, but the average sensual man does not." This is fundamentally true, but scientifically lazy, because the Christian is instructed by scripture to consider the satisfactions, or more properly, the condition of all human beings as equal to, and more important, than his own condition. Leviticus 19:15. The proper theology as taught by Jesus is that sensual men should readily recognize Christians because, having the same doctrinal understanding of love, Christians should equally love and care for each other. What the author has missed is, the same compassion that Christians are to exhibit for each other, is the same compassion that they ought to show to non-Christians, even with the foreknowledge that their unselfishness potentially will not be reciprocated. And, yet, the author offers a defense of why theology should not be considered as a justifiable value, that is, if mankind were to assign who’s values are legitimate and those that are inconsequential. Again, the scientist speaks unscientifically of Christians.

Ethics, politics and philanthropy have been guilty of neglecting individual differences, partly because doing so simplifies all problems, and partly because of the retention of theological and sentimental prejudices in favor of the similarity and equality of man.

In the grander scheme of what men value, there is the splintering of the church from science, and science from the church. It has not always been this way. There is the concentrated effort of certain great scholars who unify the bible and science. Yet, there are those that unify, but restrict biblical interpretations of ethical, lawful morality and virtue from scientific fact. In all good conscience, science should not be used to prove biblical references, but to confirm the value of many a scientific theory. It should be the founding guideline of the scientific approach. In this manner, in the search for proof of macroevolution, the bible would be a guide. In the search for the perfection of law, the bible would be seen as an indispensable teacher. When learning to govern, enact law, or to enforce it, the bible would be the primary textbook. When mankind is finally convinced that we have failed in law, method and ethics, and we must find our principle belief in the singular source of the order of all things, we will return to God and his word, and we will approach it with the fervency of study that we do in all of our other goings. It is a much greater challenge, and a more rewarding endeavor, to find enlightenment, renaissance, art, beauty, singleness of spirit, and greater knowledge when searching for God, than it is to simply try to erase him.

In ancient times, if a king or any ruler would call for a wise man to interpret a mystery, it was because the enigmatic muse was of the highest import to lawful integrity, but had been communicated in the form of beasts or other natural phenomena. Ultimate truth, for the mortal, is found in nature. If this were not so, God would not have given heavenly wisdom, judgment and discernment in this manner. Jesus revealed heavenly virtue by way of parables of natural science. This indicates to us that that which does not change, does not lie, is perfectly aligned to the will of God, obeys its divinely assigned laws, is eternally persevering and perfectly balanced, is nature; the best earthly example of what is the kingdom of heaven. The original intended goal of science, then, is to better understand nature so to learn law and order, and next, communicable efficiency of love and piety as shown as butterflies pollenating beautiful flowers. We can certainly ask of this, ‘what is the end of ultimate truth, because the beginning and ending of the knowledge of nature transcends man’s capabilities?’ For the mortal, there is no beginning or ending knowledge of what is perfection, because infinite knowledge is beyond finite beings. As temporal men, it is our purpose to fasten our minds to the ambition of perfection at large, to search for heaven in such an ambiguous reality as ours’ and to seek out the quietude of heavenly peace in such a distracting world.

Within the first stages of intellectual evolution is the innocent reverence of God, and this is based on ignorance, because we are unlearned of his nature. We turn from God and to the world of science, and some who become prodigal sons become enamored to nature, seeing it as the creator, and in this try to disprove God. And yet others draw closer to God because of this. This is as we have read that Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden. And soon all but one man and his family (the small remnant of belief that cannot be snuffed out of the world) is preserved and all other beliefs drown in the deluge of their own passions and their overwhelming and choking proofs. After this, we witness a world inundated with God’s love, as depicted in the flood, the precursor of baptism. We see next in scripture, the tower of Babel, that men come together in a grand effort to unite as many whose sole identifying concept is to breach heaven through earthly means. Today, this is the use of science to say nothing is divine, and divinity (reaching heavenly apexes) can be accomplished by our own genius. After the splitting of