{"id":379,"date":"1999-03-14T05:54:41","date_gmt":"1999-03-14T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robbinsrendezvous.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"1999-03-14T05:54:41","modified_gmt":"1999-03-14T05:54:41","slug":"meditations-on-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Meditations on Measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph paragraph_style\"><em><span class=\"style_1\">re: Community Assessment &amp; Spiritual Mapping<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><span class=\"style_2\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><span class=\"style_2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-380 \" src=\"https:\/\/robbinsrendezvous.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/microscope.png\" alt=\"microscope\" width=\"120\" height=\"187\">The Bible never assumes that our faculties are&nbsp;limited to our supposed \u201cfive senses.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><span class=\"style_2\">The Bible assumes that we are able to discern&nbsp;the essential nature of God from creation, and&nbsp;are therefore \u201cwithout excuse.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><span class=\"style_2\">We all have God-given faculties to see the invisible world. We all have a built in microscope. Some of us don\u2019t know its there. Some of us don\u2019t know how to use it and many of us don\u2019t know how to use it to consistently discern the reality of the spiritual dimension around us. (I may fall in this category.)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><span class=\"style_2\">There is a big difference between rational and rationalism&#8230; between empirical and empiricalism. One says that reality can be substantially understood or measured, the later says that&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"style_3\">IF<\/span><span class=\"style_2\">&nbsp;it cannot be understood or measured,&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"style_3\">THEN&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"style_2\">it doesn\u2019t exist.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><span class=\"style_2\">To be \u201ctangible\u201d means that it can be felt.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><span class=\"style_2\">So if I can consistently feel or sense the spiritual realm, then it is tangible and no less empirical than anything else.&nbsp; It was a rational, measurable (empirical) process that led Heisenburg to conclude that the Universe was not ultimately measurable.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><span class=\"style_2\">Even with a real microscope, I cannot train a student to find a TB bacillus every time on a given pathology slide. Sometimes even the lab expert misses what they should have found. And it will always be this way, yet that doesn\u2019t make microscopic lab work somehow \u201cmystical\u201d, only somewhat uncertain.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><span class=\"style_2\">This week I want the Lord to help me use this faculty more consistently.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><em><span class=\"style_2\">Allan Robbins&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"style_4\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"style_5\">\u00a9&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"style_6\">March 1999<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>re: Community Assessment &amp; Spiritual Mapping The Bible never assumes that our faculties are&nbsp;limited to our supposed \u201cfive senses.\u201d The Bible assumes that we are able to discern&nbsp;the essential nature of God from creation, and&nbsp;are therefore \u201cwithout excuse.\u201d We all have God-given faculties to see the invisible world. We all have a built in microscope. 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