REVELATION

It does not appear to me likely that we are going to be able to figure things out all by ourselves; by our own effort, we have two strategies open to us for attempting to make sense of the universe: the painstaking analysis of each grain of phenomena that enters our experience via our senses, or the articulation of general principles which we perceive to be behind all the various permutations of the phenomenal universe. These general principles, of course, are a kind of revelation; what the Apostle tells us is written on the heart of every man. If we depend only on the analysis of phenomena for our truth, we are like a child on the beach, examining the soil where he sits, justifiably concluding the entire universe is made of sand; of course, our senses are also a kind of revelation. Why else should we consider our senses as portals of Truth? If our senses are the result of random processes, why should not their report be equally random? It seems to me, we can trust our senses to the extent we regard them as endowed by a beneficent Creator; One who gives them for our instruction, not our confusion, but we cannot rely on them utterly. They are for the verification of truth, not its discovery. 'The Heart knows its truths, which Reason may not know".

Were it not for the grace of the beneficent Father, we would be sightless; deaf, dumb, and blind. The Creator of the Heart of Man is also the Lawgiver of Sinai, reinforcing these truths almost to the point of redundancy for the benefit of His dull children. Then, lest the point of these precepts be lost forever in the legalistic multiplication of irrelevant minutiae, Christ came as Teacher to remind us, "To Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself....this is the whole of the Law". Lawyers may be workers of evil, but the Law itself is a thing of beauty.