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QUANTUM THEOLOGY : M. M. NINAN<br />

However during the church age, we tend to ignore this reality.<br />

The best way to check the state of your church is to measure the<br />

honesty and goodness of its members and compare it<br />

statistically with the general population. Is it significantly higher?<br />

If not it is time to rebuild the church on better footing. It is time for<br />

a revival. One sad tendency of the evangelical Christians is to<br />

play down the "good works", as though they do not matter. This<br />

was a necessary reaction to replacing "good works" instead of<br />

faith. But we are keeping it beyond the necessary level to the<br />

detriment of the basic tenet.<br />

Jam 2:18 But some one will say, "You have faith and I have<br />

works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my<br />

works will show you my faith.<br />

The world was grappling with the various results and equation of<br />

Lorenz, Fitzgerard and Poincare before it could be explained<br />

naturally by the formulation of Relativity. The black body<br />

radiation behavior and the photoelectric effect led to the quantum<br />

theory. This is the normal process of growth. We always go back<br />

from observed facts to the reality behind the facts. If we try the<br />

other way round it may or may not be correct. This we have seen<br />

from the Platonic style of theology starting from the attributes of<br />

God. They don’t tally with actual reality or with all revelations of<br />

God without tampering. The monism of Origen condemned by<br />

the council of Constantinople was also due to such an approach.<br />

A strict monistic definition of God certainly required a created<br />

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