Apology to Engineers and Scientists
Posted on January 22, 2010 by Pastor Tom
Hi everyone: I would like to make a sincere apology to all my engineering and scientific friends who were in attendance last week to hear the message. I said that just like the law of the Spirit and life replaces the law of sin and death, the law of aerodynamics replaces the law of gravity when a plane takes off and reaches a certain speed.
Several engineers and scientists in the crowd visibly twitched. I was later informed that the law of gravity still exists. But the lift force offsets it? Something about Bernouli’s (Bernie Ooley?) principle. So I apologize for causing your internal twitch.
However, I’m not sure I really said the law of aerodynamics “replaces” the law of gravity. I knew in drawing up the illustration that gravity still exists when a plane flies. So I think I said something like “it’s kind of like this.” But the Engineers and Scientists didn’t see it that way or hear it that way. (Or perhaps they were looking for an excuse just to rip me! :))
Anyway, that’s the price you pay for trying to connect Scripture to real life. I hope you still get the bigger point! Ha.
Hope you all have a great weekend.
PT
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January 25, 2010
Sorry Tom, but I`m pretty sure that the scripture did a better job at the comparison.
In Matthew 5:17–18 Jesus states, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth dissappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means dissappear from the Law until everything is accomplished”(NIV).
We are still under the Law which condemns us, by our sin, to death but it is by the gift and Law of Jesus that we are able to overpower the old Law and “fly”. So your analogy is still flawed as the Law, like gravity, is still in effect but it is only by Jesus/Fluid Dynamics/Bernouli’s Principle is that law overcome.
How you understand my not so internal cringe during the sermon.
N
February 05, 2010
Hahahaha! Sorry I didn’t catch this earlier Tom. I now know to go to your blog for all of your public apologies.
Rather than raise any more issues, I would like to thank you for relating God’s Word to the Bernoulli principle. I could listen to sermons like that all day…
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