'where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding' Job

It often seems that certain clergy don't believe that it's a Christians place to reason. The pastor stands before the congregation every Sunday to explain the word of God and his flock are meant to meekly accept his every word. Any attempt to question or reason is damned as doubting the word of God. Apart from the fact that I believe any attempt by a human being to become the ' mouth piece of God ‘ is misguided , wrong and been the cause over the centuries of untold suffering. All we have to do as Christians to understand the word of God is open the bible specifically the New Testament where Jesus himself explains the ways of God to man. But in Job God is saying more than ' take my word for it' in the marvelously descriptive passages concerning the forces of nature God is asking us to open our eyes to the finger prints he has left on his creation. One of the greatest gifts God gave us is reason the ability to understand the universe that surrounds and thus to make his creation a part of us. Hegel wrote ' the aim of knowledge is to divest the objective world of its strangeness and make it intelligible to us'. Using maths, the sciences, philosophy we can probe ever deeper and what we perceive in the spotlight of reason becomes evermore wonderful and miraculous. Compare what medicine knew about the body 100 years ago to today the beauties of DNA , genetics, the extraordinary phenomenon of Quantum physics have all come to light the deeper we dig the greater the treasure. If this were to be presented in a court of law who could possibly not judge there to have been a designer and one that wants us to understand his design?

To me this is much more exiting than ' A God of gaps' a realizable creative process is any day more fulfilling than magic .In creating a path to himself God has underlined that he regards us as his children and partners not vassals. The finger of God doesn't point it beckons.