It does not claim to be the end all and be all. That is ‘scientism” the arrogant distant cousin of humble science that posits hypothesis that are simply the ‘best answer yet’
Celtic Christianity rests on three pillars, the Holy Bible, the wisdom of the Church and Nature. To the Celtic Christian the study to Nature, science, is Godly. The Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy spiirt is heard in the Word and Life of Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Church and the laws of Nature .
To my mind, Latin Catholicism focuses mostly on the teaching the church and Pope and the Holy Bible.
The Protestants under Martin Luther first rebelled against the authority of the “church’ and the Pope, choosing to hold the Holy Bible as higher.
Evangelical Christians and Fundamentalists today continue that tradition focusing primarily on the teachings of Jesus Christ recorded in the four Gospels.
Spiritual Christianity which historically was called ‘Christian’s Mysticism’ maintains that Jesus Christi, though he physically died on the cross continues to speak through the Holy Spirit to his followers. These saints, the first, perhaps St. Paul, have continued to expand on the apostolic teachings. The Church, that congregations of Christians has continued to issue Creeds. Just as Luther and the Protestants split from the authority of the Pope, who is a leader of a secular kingdom, the Vatican, so the Orthodox Church split and followed the authority of the Creeds.
The direct contact with Jesus Christ or God is through prayer which is said to be talking with God while meditation is listening to God. Celts are said to be ‘Fay’ or ‘touched’ and like the prophets of the Old Testament live in a miraculous world where all is possible with God. Even Jesus says that with faith that is so. Manifestation is the physical experience of God apparently ‘outside’ the laws of nature.
Despite decades of scientific education at the highest level and working as physician and scientist I have experienced miracles and encounters with the divine.
When I studied Hebrew and biblical translations I was fascinated by the historical age, and locale and biases that were embedded in the final drafts. For instance, the concept of time in Aramaic Hebrew, language from an agricultural age, is given as a ‘long time’. The word ‘infinity’ as we speak of it today is a product of mathematics and the time of Descartes. So an interpretation of time for ‘hell’ as punishment might be for a ‘long time’ versus for ‘infinity’.
Your God is too small, a tiny book by Phillips challenges us all to expand our consciousness to love as Jesus did God is omniscient and omnipotent. Asked to sum of his teaching he said ‘Love God and Love your neighbour as yourself”.
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