Spiritual meaning out of science?

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I wish these were my own thoughts, but I'm not quite so creative. However, I found these thoughts so intriguing I felt like sharing. I hope you don't mind.

I was reading the inside jacket for the CD A COLLISION or (3 + 4 = 7) by the David Crowder* Band.

On the front cover is a picture of a boy looking up at a picture of the classic picture of an atom. He explains elsewhere how this picture is symbol of an atom but not how it actually works or looks. In the same way our elements of worship are inadequate but this is what we have to carry the idea. (That could be a discussion on its own, couldn't it?).

But going back to reading the inside jacket. These are David Crowder's words before the songs begin:

It all started with a book from the early 60's acquired by my wife from an antique shop in downtown Chicago. That, and a conversation with a very intelligent acquaintance of mine who is currently finishing his PhD work in superstring theory, and who happened to mention in very whimsical tone one sunny Texas afternoon that we were, and I quote, "...walking around in the sky..." He said this while pointing to nothing in particular, "...you see, there is ground and there is sky and we are somewhere in between. We're walking around in it. Our feet are on the fround but..." - wait. I'm getting ahead of myself. Like I said, it started with a book: "The story of Atomic Energy"...

So, I tried to pay attention to the lyrics of the songs in light of this train of thought. I'm not sure I get it all, but I can see a couple things.

I am full of earth. You are heaven's worth. I am stained with dirt, prone to depravity. You are everything that is bright and clean, the antonym of me. You are divinity. But a certain sign of grace is this: From the broken earth flowers come up pushing through the dirt. You are holy....

And the truest sign of grace was this: From wounded hands redemption fell down, liberating man. But the harder I try the more clearly can I feel the depth of our fall and wight of it all. And so this might could be the most impossible thing: Your grandness in me making me clean...

I am wholly Yours

The breaking makes a sound I never knew could be so beautiful and loud, fury filled and we collide...a beautiful collision...where You and I collide...something circling inside, spaciously you fly, infinite and wide, like the moon and the sky collide...

At the end of the songs, David continues with these thoughts:

"...For the past two years we have ended most nights in concert with the following statement:

'When our depravity meets HIs divinity it is a beautiful collision.' This recording is about that collision. It is the collision of our fallen state and our Maker's transcendence. It is a rendering of our mortality and eternal life.

It is about the tension that exists in the living of life, here, where the sky meets the broken earth. It is about a tsunami in East Asia. It is about a sunrise over Hiroshema. It is about too many who know intensely what pain the word "cancer" holds and whe words of my friend whispered in my ear, "It's okay. None of us are getting out of here alive you know." It is about victory. It is about the joy that comes when blood tests return and a miracle is announced. It is the hope in a rescue that has come, the hope in a rescue that has found us, and the relentless hope in a greater rescu that is still coming - one that has not yet arrived but is no less present. This music, broken, improper and inadequate in its response is rooted in that hope.

The Kingdom of Heaven is here and now and coming."

It was then I finally figured the (3 + 4 = 7) alternate title to the album.

The number 3 is symbolic for God.

The number 4 is symbolic for man.

The number 7 is symbolic for perfection.

A beautiful collision!

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If you want to read more, click here:

David Crowder and then click on the album cover image.

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Am I the only one who felt inpiration from this?

[Bread_of_Life]

yup

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Fine.

Be a good Hellenist and separate sacred from secular.

I'm going to lose my love for science if scientists keep trying to kill my heart.

[Bread_of_Life]

*rolls eyes*

*starts whistling "Don't go breaking my heart*

[Scarletprayers]

*rolls eyes*

*starts whistling "Don't go breaking my heart*

My, aren't we feisty this morning!

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Yeah - whatever.

It hurts me, it hurts you

All the foolish things that we do

What hurts you should hurt me

If we're one body

Like we claim to be

~Steve Camp~

I've had enough.