I have found a possible answer to, "Did God intend Reason and Belief to be separate?" The early Christian Church was sensitive to any suggestion that they were not infallible. This of course led to such notables as Galileo being persecuted because he used his 'God Given' Reason.

 

   I have known many Scientists that struggle with the strictures that very persecution initiated. Now they fight their source of inspiration to maintain their ranking in the Science community. On the Church hardliners often lack the understanding that both Reason and Spirit must work together to find the complete picture.

 

   The world is ever changing, along with our understanding of it. To take a snap shot of a culture and try to impose it on the Modern times impoverishes the Spirit.

 

   The time has come for the two sides to quit trying to demonize each other. There is even Scriptural support for this view point. In the Reconciler Gospel of Thomas there are versus that relate directly to a necesssity for a reconciliation.

   There are references to Modern ideas. In Medicine there are references to Plastic Surgery, and Prosthetics. In Math, Astronomy, and Geology there are references to the beginnings of the Universe, and String Theory.

 

   Here are quotes from the Reconciler related to these past stated observations.

Prosthetics and Plastic Surgery:

(22) When Jesus saw suckling infants, he said to his students, these suckling infants are from The One. Being like them is the way to enter Heaven.”

     They asked Jesus, “If we are innocent like children can we enter Heaven?”

     Jesus said, “You must reconcile the two becoming one again. You must make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside. You must make the above like the below. You must make the male and the female one and the same. You must make the male not be only male, and the female not only female. There will come a time when you are able to craft an eye to replace an eye, and a hand to replace a hand, and a foot to replace a foot, and rebuild a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter The Kingdom.”

Geology:

(19) Jesus said, “Your soul is blessed when you are aware and chose to come to Earth to learn, to become more.  If you listen to my words and become my students, even these stones will teach you about the Earth. There is a separate place that is Heaven; it is a place of learning. It has a library that is never destroyed, where all knowledge is preserved even when strife, darkness, and Evil walk the Earth. The knowledge that is stored there for you will be revealed as people can understand what is shared”

(77) Jesus said, “I who am the Light that is above all the Earth and all the Angels who guard her. I am the one who oversaw the beginning and I am in everything.  The One sent the Earth for me, and for it to be mine.  Saw a log in pieces, and I am there. Cleave a stone, and you will find me there.”

Space Flight:

(42) Jesus said, “Stand outside the World, to see the Whole.”

Astronomy:

(18) Jesus’ students asked, “How will the Universe end?” 

     Jesus said, “Why do you seek to know the end when you do not know how everything began? The beginning is where you will discover the end. Someday a person will discover how everything began. With that knowledge they will know the end as well. Knowing the beginning and the end will forever unite them with The One. This knowing will not come from the mind alone, but in the unity of mind and spirit. (Note: String Theory)

(111) Jesus said, “Someday both the Solar system and the Earth will pass away, but living in the One, they will live on in the One.”

(11) Jesus said, “The Earth and the Solar System will cease to exist. Those who, walking in the dark, are not alive though they walk around. Those who walk in the light and are aware are not dead and will not die. You consume what is dead, but by eating it, it becomes part of you and alive again. When you live in the light, how will you live? When you were born The One in you became two. You became body and soul, how will you reconcile the needs of both?”

String Theory:

Explain a little about String Theory:

  String Theory uses Math formulas to explain how the Universe came to be and anomolies that regular Physics has not been able to do. 

  The Laws of Physics for 'large Physics' and 'small Physics' do not agree with each other or merge well. The closer in size they are the more they conflict.

  String Theory is a way of explaining in Math terms how they can be reconciled and co-exist.

  Branes or Membranes are the vibrating elements described in String Theory.     

 

(18) Jesus’ students asked, “How will the Universe end?” 

     Jesus said, “Why do you seek to know the end when you do not know how everything began? The beginning is where you will discover the end. Someday a person will discover how everything began. With that knowledge they will know the end as well. Knowing the beginning and the end will forever unite them with The One. This knowing will not come from the mind alone, but in the unity of mind and spirit. (Note: String Theory)

(113) Jesus’ students asked, “When will Heaven come?”

     Jesus said, “It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying, ‘It is here.’ or ‘There it is. Heaven and The One are already spread upon the Earth, and People do not see it. They fill the same spaces.” (Note: two branes)

(3) Jesus said, “ If your leaders say, ’The kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the air will get to Heaven before you.  If the leaders say, “ Heaven is in the sea,” the fish will get to Heaven before you.”  “Instead know that Heaven is inside of you, and Heaven is outside of you. If you learn who you truly are, you will step into the presence of The One, and you will know that you are the children of The One. If you do not seek to find your true self, you live in the dark, you are part of the dark, and you aid the darkness of the world.”

Science and Religion in Balance:

  (5) Jesus said, “Become aware of your world, and what was hidden will be obvious for you. There is nothing that was hidden that will not be obvious.”

 (17) Jesus said, “I will show you what no eye has seen. I will tell you what no ear has heard. I will let you feel what no hand has felt. I will inspire you with things that have never been thought in a human mind. Always seek to know more, and it will be given.”

 (18) Jesus’ students asked, “How will the Universe end?” 

     Jesus said, “Why do you seek to know the end when you do not know how everything began? The beginning is where you will discover the end. Someday a person will discover how everything began. With that knowledge they will know the end as well. Knowing the beginning and the end will forever unite them with The One. This knowing will not come from the mind alone, but in the unity of mind and spirit. (Note: String Theory)   

 (47) Jesus said, “It is impossible for a person to mount two steeds or stretch two bows at the same time.  It is impossible to serve two Bosses.  A person would respect one and treat the other with contempt. This does not mean that Reason and Spirit are two Masters. Those two should work as a team to reach The One.”

     No one who has a taste for old wine reaches for an unaged new wine. New wine is not put in old wineskins, because it would burst, because it holds life. Aged wine does not hold life, its sugar is expended, would spoil in a new wineskin because the skin is not cured by the fermentation.

     An old patch is not safely sewn onto a new garment, because it will be ripped, because the clothes shrink at different rates.”

 (92) Jesus said, “Seek and you shall find.  You asked me questions before, but I did not tell you because it was not time. Now it is time. I want to tell you but you have stopped asking. Do not give up looking. Ask until you get your answers, as a three year old will persist until they are fully satisfied.”

 (110) Jesus said, “A person who discovers and becomes rich in the knowledge of the nature of the world should then seek Self-Knowledge as well.”