Invisible

Faith and other invisible components of  this thing we call life

Malachi 3:10 (KJV)

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].

Faith is not a tangible thing that has physical evidence. Faith is supernatural. Not a naturally occurring thing that you can set your eyes on or use the senses to identify. In fact, faith is something that can be explained away and probably be attributed to some physical, natural and completely plausible explanation. Which gives birth to another supernatural occurrence called unbelief. For lack of linguistic depth, the scientific would call these invisible, yet identifiable components of human and natural life, characteristics. The more religious would call them spirits. Many religions and the scientific look at the characteristics of naturally occurring components of nature, including humanity, to give the invisible traits an explainable or knowable “life”. Rocks have characteristics of being hard and durable. Therefore these rocks could be attributed traits of life like “protector” or “dependable”. The Bible uses this method when the disciple Peter is attributed the characteristics of a rock to be the “rock” that the Christian church will be built on. This method of identification is a way to acknowledge the existence of intangible characteristics into a manner of explanation that is acceptable to humanity and puts things in a “proper” order. That order normally puts humanity highest, at the top or next to it. The religious would say that there is a preeminent entity or occurrence or that humanity is the preeminent entity. The scientific don’t really know and are constantly searching for that “proper” and provable order with the idea that science itself is the all-knowing eye that puts all things in their correct place and that our human understanding of that order is the final piece of some great puzzle. Religion believes the same thing in a different context. The religious believe that they can know and are constantly searching for that “proper” and provable order with the idea that knowing their position in relation to the highest order itself is the key to the all-knowing eye that puts all things in their correct place and that religious understanding of that order is the final piece of some great puzzle. In fact, many believe it is possible that humanity is that yet to be understood and evolved highest order of life or the direct servant of it.