"you are beside yourself! Much learning is driving you mad! But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak the words of truth and reason." Acts 26:24-25
Much learning is making you mad Paul was told. But Paul's response tells us something about human pride. Much learning can make us mad. We are crazy because of the crazy things we come up with when we learn too much. Science comes up with crazy ideas in their attempt, like Festus, to skirt the main issue of faith. All of higher learning has lost it's way in their zeal to avoid truth as it is in Christ.
For example, science tells us that we are made up of particles like protons and neutrons and electrons. That we are basically machines humming along through space and time. This is why AI thinks it is almost human. It's just another machine. But the Bible tells a different story about people.
"I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;" Psalm 139:14
The words fearfully and wonderfully are Hebrew words that are the same that are used to describe God. Awe inspiring and amazing. Worthy of respect and marvelous. God did not build a machine. He created people who resemble God.
"So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them" Genesis 1:27
To say that we are biological machines is to attempt to discredit God. Much learning has made us mad.
Did you know that science tells us that matter is the same throughout the entire universe? An electron on Earth is the same as an electron in a star ten billion light years away. They tell us that empty space is not empty. Of course it isn't empty. God fills the whole universe with His awesome power.
"Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, measured heaven with a span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure? Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?" Isaiah 40:12
"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge." Psalm 19:1-2.
Much learning has make us think that God doesn't exist and that all of creation is a random accident and that people are only machines. Much learning has made us mad.
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