PhD: Twitter quote 92

PhD: Twitter quote 92

Twitter version I

God is revealed in Scripture to be spiritual in nature as described in John 4:24, therefore God could never be proven to exist through the empirical, scientific testing of matter. 

Twitter version II

Science is therefore a discipline outside of the realm of the supernatural.

June 24, 2021

The first cause, the primary cause, the uncaused cause, God, is infinite and by definition, beyond finite, time, space and matter. God cannot be proven empirically, but God works within creation. Creation is empirical as is God's key historical, revelation as the God-man, God the Son, God the Word, the incarnate, Jesus Christ, that provides salvation for those regenerate persons (John 3, Titus 3) that believe in him (John 1-3).

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John 4: 24 πνεῦμα ὁ θεός   

πνεῦμα  pnuema (spirit)

ὁ  ho (is)

θεός  theos (God)

Translated

God is spirit.

John 4: 24 King James Version (KJV)

24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

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