Mount Zion

Description:

While scientific knowledge is based on tested truths, religion is founded on blind assent to divinely revealed truths. Such is the gap between religion and science. It appears unbridgeable. Or is it? Upon close examination of the Scriptures, from "Genesis" to "Revelation", a mystical object (depicting the Kingdom of God) emerges as the central theme of Divine Revelation. Its structural features and attributes are described in different epochs, by different biblical personages. This Hidden Structure--a Cryptogram--is variously portrayed in the Scriptures as a rock or a mountain, and frequently associated with fire (combustion). Through a combustion experiment, the three dimensional picture of this Divine Emblem--a Pictogram--is made manifest, replete with mathematical formulae. Thus, the authentication of the Scriptures no longer depends on blind faith, but on the systematic verification of this Structure (Mount Zion) with the testimonies of biblical personages who espied and described it long before the dawn of science. By virtue of this Pictogram, solutions are provided to, hitherto, challenging theological and philosophical problems. Such as the following: 1) If God is Wholly Good, Omnificent and Omnipotent, how is Evil to be accounted for? 2) If God is, indeed, Three Persons in One, then how is humanity to conceive of It logically? 3) God is, generally, acknowledged to be the Absolute Truth, but Absolute Truth, as evident in Nature, is characteristically binary: true and false, positive and negative, male and female, et cetera. How does this Dyadic attribute of Truth relate to God's Tripartite and Unitary Nature 4) What is the prevailing system of Divine Justice--Determinism or Free Will? And what are its Principles? 5) Is grace exclusively a divine gift or a reward? If it is purely a gift, then why should one who is denied its benefits be judged unrighteous, if God is truly righteous? 6) From experience: "Uncertainty" pervades Nature. Thus, it is apt to speak in terms of the "probabilities" of events. How does this observation from Nature relate to the Divine? Is there an underlying Principle? What is It? 7) According to the Scriptures "God is Light". But in Nature light is known to be, at once, a wave and a particle. Is this physical feature, also, an attribute of God? If so, how does this attribute express itself in the spiritual domain? These and other theological questions are, definitively, answered with scientific illustrations, and using scriptural data.

subjects: Biblical teaching,  Fire,  Mountains in the Bible,  Religion and science,  Revelation

Places: Temple Mount (Jerusalem)