As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “May you, on this day, also know what brings you peace! But now it’s hidden from your eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, when thine enemies shall come upon thee, and they shall compass thee round about, and shall overtake thee on every side, even thy children and thy children in thee, and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another;

Encourage believers to open their hearts and let Jesus act. According to St. Irene, “God’s glory is the living man, for the real-life of man is the vision of God.” and he saw the city, weeping “(Luke 19;41). Jesus is the holiest man whoever lived, yet we can see him filled with sorrow and sorrow. What brought tears to Jesus? A city he loved so much, but which did not know the most important thing in its history: the coming of the Messiah and his gifts to all the inhabitants. Do we give reason to weep for Jesus over our sin and neglect of good?

Have we ever had the Lord wait for us? If we do not love Jesus, we cannot follow him. Let us remember the anger Jesus showed when he drove the vendors out of the temple (cf. Johan 2: 13-17). Why are we afraid of our emotions, or why are we trying to hide them? When God created us in His image, He declared that all was well. However, the original sin wound brought an increase in selfishness, established passions, and hostile aggression. Because of human sin, we have all been hurt in our quest for love, and we have all experienced how destructive emotions can be. To protect ourselves from further injuries, we built a whole complex of defense mechanisms and internal fortifications. Our unhealed wounds and unmet needs remain locked in our hearts. And finally, our inner walls can close us in bitterness, in emotional cold, lonely and alive only as if “half.” However, God wants us to live to this full so that we can witness to the world of a healthy, balanced Christian life. He wants to set us free so that we can freely rejoice or regret, show anger against injustice, and show love for all that is true, right, and beautiful in the world.

Next time, when you find yourself in a situation that evokes an emotional response, do not deny your feelings or condemn yourself for not being holy enough. On the contrary, bring your reaction before the Lord. Ask him to purify your feelings and let him fully come to life

On the third day, according to the Book of Genesis, two things happened: first, the “dry land” was created, and with it the vegetation. The first of these events can be correlated with the third important stage of the scientific scenario, cosmic structuring, i.e., galaxies and stars. It is indeed the beginning of the emergence of a “dry land” because such a phenomenon can only occur in a structured universe. The Book of Genesis also places the origin of flora until now, which is scientifically unacceptable. The problem could be overcome by stating that humanity did not consider vegetation to be living objects when Genesis was written. For them, it was simply the “hair of the earth.” However, there is nothing to prevent us from trying to see some hidden and non-trivial expression of a certain serious idea in this formulation.

We know that life also requires the presence of other elements known from chemistry, especially carbon. Still, according to the scientific scenario, these could appear only when the oldest suns exploded after depletion of their hydrogen fuel as the so-called supernovae, which brought gas-dust matter into space, enriched with other chemical elements. The next generation’s sons were created from it, and only then could they become the germ of the origin of life, including plants. However, recent information from scientific circles suggests that a certain – albeit tiny – percentage of chemical elements other than hydrogen and helium may have formed in the early stages of the universe, so potentially the foundations could begin to lay the groundwork for the recovery of dead matter.

However, there is another and perhaps more likely version of the history of life on our Earth. Many experts are seriously considering whether life could not be brought to our planet from anywhere in space. They argue that the time interval of several hundred thousand years, which experts in the scientific scenario of the origin of life are willing to admit, is too short to carry out the complex processes leading to the revival of dead matter. They believe that the transfer of life from other space sites (for example, through meteors) seems more likely. This inspires the idea that somewhere in space, “dry land” was created earlier than in our locality due to a more favorable grouping of conditions. Based on such a consideration, we could conclude that even the mention of vegetation’s existence on the “third day” of creation could have a real informative value.

Let us add that there are still quite a few unresolved problems around the origin of life, especially among believers. Many believe that the revival of the dead matter is a direct intervention of the Creator. Many prominent scientists (among them, for example, the Nobel Prize winner I. Prigogine, but also the prominent Christian thinker P. Teilhard de Chardin) believe that external intervention was unnecessary and that life can also be understood as a product of a spontaneous evolutionary process. We will return to this problem in a separate article.

The fourth day of creation is the day of the Sun and the Moon’s origin, i.e., the day of our solar system’s origin. There is no serious discrepancy between the biblical and scientific scenarios, not only in terms of content but also in time. At present, science can describe this process quite mathematically and puts it in time in the second half of the universe’s history, which correlates with biblical information.

A difference in the wording can be seen in the fact that the Bible speaks of a single solar system, but according to the scientific scenario, a relatively large number of them could have arisen. But then, a very natural question arises whether intelligent beings also inhabit other solar systems. Optimists believe that there must be many civilizations in the universe, but many scientists believe that life is only on our planet. They argue that a solar system with ambitions to become the abode of life and man would have exceptional characteristics. And it is doubtful that, given the great randomness of the processes (leading to the formation of solar systems), another system similar to ours could occur somewhere. This is not impossible but very unlikely. If life does not really occur anywhere else in the universe, then our Earth is not an absolutely insignificant powder in the universe, as presented by astrophysics, but literally, its center, because it has become the home of the crown of creation as the only object in the universe. And that would actually be a return to the original religious idea of ​​our Earth.

According to the Book of Genesis, the real day of life and living beings’ origin is the fifth day. These were mainly aquatic animals and birds. This correlates very well with the scientific scenario, according to which it took place – on a microscopic level – after about 11-12 billion years.

Who would count how many people he has met in his life? About one meeting writes St. Luke. Jesus then says to him, “Today salvation has come to this house. … The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost “(Luke 19:10). Jesus takes on sinners when he declares,” I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners “(Mt 9:13). St. Matthew, who was also a customs officer – like Zacchaeus in Jericho, when Jesus said likewise, “The Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10). That when he hears that Jesus is coming to Jericho, that he wants to see him at least, and that later behavior shows that was not only led by curiosity, he must have sympathy for the prophet – which Jesus, as God who knows everything, knew. That Zacchaeus climbs a tree because he was a small figure, he is a means to satisfy his curiosity; in fact, he did what was necessary on his part as a human being, and Jesus could have addressed Zacchaeus even if he had not climbed a tree. It is a challenge for us to do what God asks of us. Those who have come to faith in God in similar circumstances say to Christ that what they did, God actually wanted them to do, and gave God consent to address them; there is no chance with God often does not end with one encounter. Jesus knew the customs officers’ view, who they were, their behavior, and why they were hated.

Customs officers were a symbol of dishonesty, arbitrariness, greed, and vengeance. They were people who could get-rich-quick, standing in the service of the enemies of the homeland, who betrayed the nation, the land, and the faith. Whoever wanted to become a customs officer had to know that he was consciously separating himself from God, the country and the homeland, that he would continuously sin against God, the nation and the land, that he had to take on the contempt of all good people, that in Jewish opinion he had to expect eternal hell. The custom’s officer was placed on an equal footing with a usurer, a robber, a murderer, a plunderer, a thief on the road, or a slut. They were people cursed (cf. Johan 7:49). And Jesus calls one of these damned to himself. It was a surprise to the righteous. Jesus knew that even Zacchaeus did not understand. That’s why she wants to spend some time with him. Jesus goes to the house of Zacchaeus.

Director Zeffirelli, in his film “Jesus of Nazareth,” portrayed this scene in a way that he notices the apostle Peter, how much he fights inside; he does not want to enter the house of a public sinner. When Jesus came to the door, he took Peter’s hand in one hand and Zacchaeus’ hand in the other and joined them. Jesus is God, who is “Love.” Zacchaeus matures in his love for God.

How many important days in our lives. How did we work together and respond to the graces they conveyed to us? God also wants our cooperation. We each have our salvation in our hands.

Before examining the “Old Testament scenario” of the universe’s formation and evolution, several serious caveats statements should be considered. The first is the Papal Commission’s conclusion for the Interpretation of the Bible in the Church of 1993. It says, “… The literal interpretation of the book Genesis about the creation of the world is unscientific fundamentalism.” Next: in the regular reading of the book Physics, the reader can get the impression that the text binds only to our Earth, partly to the Sun and moon, at most to our solar system. The author (or authors) was probably to provide necessary information about the emergence and development of the real world at all. The fact that the information provided is associated with and happening on Earth is related to the fact that in those times, the entire universe was reduced to Earth as its center; everything else consisted only of objects of secondary importance. If we wanted to understand the book Genres’ text by attaching it exclusively to the globe and not to the entire universe, we would be in serious conflict with scientific facts. There is no doubt that the Sun was here more like planet Earth, therefore under the name “earth” in the statement: “In the beginning, God created heaven and earth,” it is not possible to understand our planet, but the basis of all the real world and from such a point of view we will try to some confrontation of the statements of the “biblical scenario” with the testimonies of the “scientific scenario.” For a long time, it was quite strange, and it was often seen as evidence of the mythical nature of the Bible, that the author of the book Physics placed the creation of the Sun until the fourth day, but the birth of light already by the first day. Where did the light come from without the Sun?

Whatever the reason, we now know that this is the only way to do it. We have already stated that the first phenomenon generated by matter in the Big Bang was light, more precisely severe electromagnetic radiation. We also know that soft forms part of a wide range of electromagnetic radiations, so the use of the word ‘light’ is justified here and, given the information our ancient ancestors had, in fact, only possible. This “light” in the form of relict radiation has been preserved until now. And so we see that when it comes to the first “day” of creation, the consistency between the information from the book of Physics and the conclusions of contemporary natural science is admirable. According to the scientific scenario, the only difference is that the “first day” of creation lasted approximately 300 thousand years. The divine activity of the second “day” of creation, according to the book Physics, focuses on “water separation.” According to the scientific scenario, there could not have been any talk of water yet, because the oxygen, which formed an essential part of the water, did not exist at all  the time. But the division was still there. Not water, but hydrogen (more precisely its nuclei) separated from 88 Faith versus Science radiation as a separate phenomenon after the process of generating “light” was completed. This department corresponds with the biblical division of waters and has, as we have already stated, the scientific name ‘space recombination.’ Thus, even with the second day of creation, there are no problems in scientific scenarios if we interpret the symbols used appropriately in Genesis’ book.

As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging. When he heard the crowd passing by, he asked what was happening. They said to him, “Jesus of Nazareth is coming here.” He cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Those in front shouted at him to be silent. But he shouted even louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Jesus stopped and preached that they bring him to him. He answered, “Lord that I may see.” And Jesus said to him, “Look! Your faith has healed you.” And straightway, he saw, and followed him, and glorified God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.

Healthy eyes for soul and body. Pay attention to your soul and the surrounding souls.

Why don’t we ask anymore? Have we resigned from the correction …? It is right for each of us to hear the words from Jesus: “Look, your faith has healed you” (Luke 18:42). And can Jesus, who is “love” (1 Jon 4:16), give a different answer than, “Go, your faith has healed you” (Luke 18:42) ?! The story is full of dynamism. And the memento is not the words of either Bartimaeus or the names of the witnesses of the event, but the remark of the evangelist St. Luke: “And straightway he saw and followed him” (Luke 18:43).

How many times have we met Jesus in our lives? It was meetings in prayer, with our neighbors, through events, through things. It was experienced, we felt dynamic, we showed a particular activity, we made commitments. And one day, I guess an hour or a little shorter in time, we forgot and were where we used to be. Jesus forgave us, healed our souls, regretted the brother’s insult, and let’s face it; life went on in the old ways because we forgot the important. “Follow Jesus, give Him praise, thank him, worship him, and glorify God.” like, that I woke up to a new day, that I was healthy, that I could work, and so on … they forgot.

Jesus is still passing by. When the Church lets us read this gospel pericope today, she wants even more from us. This can be expressed in the words: That we may set out on the next path of our lives no longer sick, that is, no longer in sin and sin, with God, our neighbor or ourselves, but to continue walking with God as his friends, so that we may think they were really brothers and sisters to each other. We realize that Jesus rightly asks of us and expects personal commitment.

One Asian ruler brought sundials from his travels because no one had a clock in his kingdom yet. This wonderful gift changed the life of the whole kingdom. The subjects quickly learned to use the watch. The lessons helped them walk on time, perform on duty duties, and so on. In a few years, they learned to use the sundial skillfully and use it to gain wealth. When the monarch died, they wanted to build a monument to remind them of the majesty. And because the sundial was a symbol of the ruler’s goodness and the source of their wealth, it occurred to them to build a magnificent temple with a golden dome above them. When the work was completed, and the golden crown covered the sundial, and of course, the clock stopped serving. The watch lost its goal, and it followed that the nation began to decline.

The teachings of Jesus have undoubtedly benefited us. It is right that we want to draw on God’s word and not to look at God’s word only sometimes or when it suits us.

As we have repeatedly mentioned, it is a frequent cause of conflicts between science and faith, as biblical texts are confronted with natural science. It seems like a lot here did not help the warning of St. Augustine; that is where the biblical books come into logical conflict with experience; they must go to the metaphorical interpretation. In many cases, this is evident, for example, for the biblical “day” and the day in our understanding.

In many cases, this metaphoric can be relatively easy to notice and explain. Consider, for example, the biblical interpretation of the famous “ten Egyptian wounds” that God wanted to force Egyptians to allow the Israelites to leave captivity.

Even a layman must dwell on formulations such as “God hammered
to Egyptian soldiers wheels on chariots “to make it difficult for them
persecution. If God is omnipotent, he does not need any primitive mechanical means to slow down the reels. Still, for many, the passage that God has sent seems more incomprehensible to many an angel to destroy the Egyptian cubs. Can he admit something like that benevolent God? If we accept that the relevant texts have a significant one informative value, but they wrote in a literary style, then all The “insidiousness” of the Old Testament texts will disappear. Braking the wheels, For example, it can cause heavy rain, which causes it to travel
muddy, and the wheels sink into the mud.

A writer who wants to impressively and convey this fact shall use the wording “God hammered the wheels of the persecutor” instead of stating that God caused the wind and the rain, making it challenging moving drivers. The resulting “truth” is the same; only how it is described differs from the mechanism by which this was done. (Let’s remember these opportunities, for example, with the Christmas tree we started with our treatise.) It could have been similar to the other “Egyptians wounds,” as evidenced by some serious professional publications.

With the need to seek the correct interpretation of the biblical texts, it is appropriate to recall the words of Pope John Paul II: “If the Bible gets into conflict with science, it is not necessary to change its text, but its interpretation.” 34) However, we will not discuss the specificity of partial significance now, but about a fundamental problem. It can also be formulated as follows: If literary, we will transform biblical sources’ language into modern ones’ professional language; we get information that correlates with current scientific knowledge or diametrically different from it distinguishes? A believer would like to know, although he realizes that the Bible, there is no scientific literature, whether this source does not contain (from a scientific point of view) of delusions. That’s the problem it would be we wanted to go into more detail in this chapter.

Before we get to that, we would like to mention a few more general observations regarding the “interaction” of science with faith. Let’s get started with another well-known quote by A. Einstein: “Faith without science is blind, science without faith it is lame.” However, he was an opponent of another famous physicist Niels Bohr, in his interpretation of quantum mechanics, by this statement, documented that he generally acknowledges the so-called principle complementarity. Its content asserts that the process of cognition usually has two sides: the more we focus on one, the more we miss the other, but both have their justification, and neither they cannot be completely rid of them.

The general formulation of the principle of complementarity has its
Genesis in the study of the micro-world. It also has a wave I corpuscular nature. When we examine the wave properties, it escapes us corpuscular essence. When we perceive the world as a set of particles, we will not notice the processes’ wave side. Complementary properties are seemingly excluded, yet we must keep in mind that both the properties exist parallel to each other and, in such a fantastic way unity, comprehensively depict the real world.

Whether someone likes it or not, science and religion are also in
a complementary relationship that reflects the interconnectedness
of spirit and matter. There were periods when only religion existed
without science, and other periods when many thinkers wanted to prove it only science without religion can live. Science was served to us as a mighty force, understanding, explaining, and planning everything man’s happy future. Religion was considered an unworthy and almost ridiculous pendant of the builder of the new company.

The relationship between science and faith was clearly defined as antagonistic, i. j. mutually exclusive. Somebody must admit that he is not responsible for creating such a relationship responsibility only materialistic philosophy. Also, representatives of religious thought have occasionally gotten into history throughout history, which recorded such a relationship. The point is that the object research on science and religion is not just completely separate from each other territories: the mental realm of faith and the material world’s realm
for science. These are two – mathematically speaking – mutually penetrating sets. Religions often offer, but sometimes more or less, postulate individual attitudes to the real world. In this area, advocates of religious concepts have often made careless efforts to formulate statements that later had to be corrected or full to leave. It was a philosophy based on the idea of “God of gaps.”

It was based on the premise that God’s idea is required by the “gaps” (white places) in our scientific knowledge. With such an attitude to the question relationship between science and faith (this also considers historical experience), it appears that religion will gradually abandon the “battlefield” and leaves the place leads. If there was only religion without science in the beginning, so in the end, somebody can expect only science without faith can be expected. Is it like that? There is also a second variant of the relationship between science and faith, the relationship.

The human soul has many secrets of tremendous forces, spirits, and qualities applied in the soul’s states. Human nature seeks to penetrate and clarify them. Each person has his soul. The body, which is subject to violation, limits the manifestations and abilities of the soul. The basis of thought life is spiritual. The spiritual principle is one that can exist without internal dependence on the organism and matter. The soul has spiritual functions that it knows and wants. In the case of people, reason, will, and will are recognized as what reason knew and the will wants. The choice is a spiritual style guided by reason, wants well, and distracts from evil. For all activities, we have senses, abilities, and abilities, For the movement of the eye of the power, the ability to see, ear to hear, for thinking mindfulness. The senses can be seen, for example, wheels, bodywork, exhaust. The soul tells the car—concepts of eternity. Beauty, virtue, fidelity are spiritual concepts. Through the eyes, the soul can see material things and can abstract their ideas from them. Generalize them. For example, the soul sees different kinds of cars and creates a spiritual concept of cars, common to all vehicles. For this activity to arise, the soul must be intangible. The forces on which these actions are based must be in something other than a sub-subject. Spiritual acts and parties certainly have a spiritual subject.

By the knowledge of reason, we express – we display in ourselves in some imaginary way. There’s a spiritual image of things in the spiritual soul picture of things. There’s still a tangible image of a specific waxing the esplans because it has its shape there, just like in the photo. There’s only the concept of a call in our mind, what we pronounce. There is always both simultaneously; furtiveness displays the car, and reason gives its concept—the outer object first acts on the senses and excites them. Reason then knows him through these senses, and he wants it or doesn’t want it. When a spiritual thing- the qualities of virtue at stake – stands helplessly in front of reason and excites it directly.

Jesus said to his disciples, “As in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man? The people ate, drank, married, and married until the day Noah entered the ark. Here the flood came and killed them all. As it was in the days of Lot: men ate, drank, bought, sold, planted, built, but on the day Lot left Sodom, fire, and brimstone fell from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be so on the day when the Son of Man will appear. Whosoever is on the housetop that day shall have things in the house, let him not go down to take them, and whosoever is in the field, let him not return. Remember Lot’s wife. He who seeks to save his life will lose it, and he who loses it will gain it. I tell you that night there will be two on one bed: one will be taken, and the other will be left. The two will grind together: one will be taken, the other will be left. “They asked him,” Where, Lord? ” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, the eagles shall be joined.”? Let’s look forward to our meeting with Jesus.

To many, their death sounds foreign, distant. Why? By thinking of it, we gain nothing; we lose nothing. Death is certain for each of us. In today’s Gospel, Luke tells us something grave: “He who seeks to save his life will lose it, and he who loses it will gain it” (Lk 17:33). Luke points out to the Jews, but also to us, some events of grace. The second warning is equally familiar and very instructive: “As it was in the days of Lot, men ate, drank, bought, sold, planted,… and destroyed them all” (Luke 17:28). -29). Both events speak only of the salvation of the pure and faithful to God. God will always find salvation for His faithful. He, who remains faithful to God, does not have to be afraid. One will not be able to get off the roof. He will not be able to return home even from the field. And he emphasizes it even more, when he points to Lot’s wife. One moment, one turn was enough, and she was punished. This will also be when the Son of Man comes to this world at the end of the ages.

We live as if it should happen now, and not in an hour, tomorrow … Although we live in space, we are talking about height, width, length, depth, and so on. Let us not ask where the last trial is to take place. The Lord Jesus tells us that the place does not matter. As vultures find their prey wherever they are, so God’s judgment will find people anywhere. Nobody can do it. This is to lead us to wait for this moment, not in fear but joy and hope. A believing Christian is not afraid to live in communion with Christ, nor of the day, nor the hour of his death, nor the Last Judgment. Even though we feel fear, Christ is our rebellion and security. After all, the Lord Jesus promised, “Everyone who confesses me before men …” (Luke 12: 8-9). Simultaneously, we feel that God has not forbidden us anything good here on earth. We should understand life on earth as something beautiful, but at the same time, we should give and to God what belongs to him.

People often misunderstand life and stick to the ancient Romans’ evil motto: “Carpe diem!” – “Enjoy the day!” This slogan destroyed the Roman Empire. And life understood in this way will also lead man to personal destruction for eternity. For us, however, it is true: Enjoy life, but do not insult, do not disgrace your God! Give to God, to your neighbor, and yourself what God desires, what He has commanded us to do, especially through His Son.