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The mysterium, the revelation, the life.
But how can we know Christ/Science/Truth? Law is dead. Experience subjective, arbitrary, even contradictory. Every step of progress becomes a new Law. Legalism kills both faith and science. Barth is right, there just isn't any human way for our finite minds to grasp the infinite. What to do? (We could all learn a lot from Augustine's Confessions).
Recap: Transmittal of truth requires 3 steps (think Physics class): Truth formulated properly, Truth written/ spoken properly, Truth received/ believed properly. Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Rom 8:4. The righteous requirements of the law are fully met in us, who live according to the Spirit. 8:26 The Spirit helps us in our weakness
The Spirit reveals the truth to us. This is the missing step of human progress. Revelation. We should absolutely pray for our experiments. We should pray for our theories. We should pray for wisdom (James1:5) All through history, science has progressed by revelation. Progress is itself evidence that God is at work in science, in faith, in us.