Truth & Faith

All start from a story...
There once was a bottle which contains a lot of bees. They all fly and live in the bottle. Some are very diligent and lucky, so that they can fly very high in the bottle; but some can only stay at the bottom. Those who fly very high feel very proud of themselves and laugh at those who fly at the bottom. All the bees want to fly as high as possible. But their beginning and end are all the same: they came to birth from nothing, they die away with nothing, they cannot escape from the bottle. One day, there is another bee fly from the outside of the bottle, and came to tell some bees in the bottle, "Come on, follow me, I can give you eternal freedom as long as you believe in me!" Some believed him, followed him, and got the eternal freedom because they escape from the bottle; some did not believe him, and stayed in the bottle, and even told other bees do not believe; some did not see that bee, and also did not believe; some believe him even they did not see him; some asked a lot of questions, tested what that bee says... What will you do, if you are one of those bees in the bottle?

What is truth?
Is there any truth in the world? Are we living in a virtual world, anything is illusion? Is everything just relative true, as what relativism states? This is one of the hardest questions from the very beginning. Many philosophers have proposed their ideas for this question. I, in fact, don't know the answer for this question. Because every time I think of this problem, God laughs. I cannot escape the limit of my thought, I can only think in the jail of 3D world! How could I understand what is truth? If I know what is truth, then I am God, but definitely I am not! But Christ come to earth to tell us, "He is truth, He is the way! All who believe Him can get the eternal life."

We can only believe the truth?
We cannot know what is the truth by ourselves. Could a man lift himself up? Could our human being understand ourselves finally? But we can believe what is the truth! However this leads to a problem: Everyone can believe in different things! Then which one should I believe? I don't know the answer neither. Every one of us has his own prior toward the things in the world. No one can be totally objective for everything! So, when I write this article, I am subjective according to what I have learned! Our brain is a "Bayesian Brain", which we turn from one prior into posterior because of some likelihood, and then that posterior begin to be another prior. Everyone believes something, no matter who he is. Personally speaking, according to my understanding and experience, Christ is the truth, Christ is the eternal life goal for me, because "this truth" can be testified and never fail but other things all fails!

Science & Faith
Then what about those science I have learned? Shouldn't we critically think of everything? The answer is yes. We have to critically think of everything. We have to testify everything, no matter it is science or faith. But we now seem like believe in science too much! Even though science teaches us to critically thinking, we do not critically think science some times. We take it for grant that science is the ultimate solution for all the problem. But some of my personal research tell me that it is not true. Science can only solve some problem, but not all problems. Science can somehow answer "How it works!", but it cannot answer "Why it works". How can science explain what is beauty, what is good? A lot of things are out of the control of science. Science is a lot of hypothesis.

Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom
I have to emphasize that I don't know the truth. But I can believe the truth. If there is a truth, I can testify it from many different perspectives. According to my understanding of God so far, God is truth! And the words by God seem to be more reasonable than any other words I know so far! And God said, "Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom!" And somehow we can only know God or understand God when we can humble ourselves, and do not think we are our own God, then God's words and His spirit can be with you.

What about the bad things happened because of faith?
As a Chinese, we may all be taught by our government that faith is evil which we can see vividly what "Falun Gong" has done to the people. Then we can also see how people use Christian to gain power, money and many things. Also there was a long dark age of the Church in the history. How could we explain all of this? I don't know. But at least, those people who did that bad things do not really understand the bible, or they do not really believe in God. However, on the other hand, as a Christian, I also do a lot of bad things everyday. That is why God says, "No one is righteous, not even one." We all are sinners, but only God is perfect, and he forgive our sins by killing his own son for us! That is why we need more of God's help to save us, to redeem us from our sinful nature.

Questions?
Of course, I don't think I explain everything clearly yet. And for myself, I always have a lot of problems and questions raising in my head. Unfortunately I cannot explain everything, I cannot know everything, otherwise, I become God! But God said, "The secrete things belong to the Lord our God". However, on the other hand, he also said, "but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law."

What will you choose if you are one of the bee in the bottle? Do you believe that bee from outside of the bottle? Do you think he is crazy? I believe Him! And I will keep seeking the truth! I believe Him will not fail me because He is the Truth! What about you?