Editorial February 22, 1982 Issue

No and yes—an answer with dimensions

BEULAH M. ROEGGE

There is an answer to all theological questions: no and yes. This answer embraces many facets of a subject in a fellowship that unites in spirit even while exploring along differing paths. More important, it avoids one-dimensional, simplistic answers.

To have a deeply meaningful life, we need to fill it with questions concerning God probed in thought, and answers proved in experience. These answers grow day by day as what we are learning enriches and expands our lives. Scriptural truths light the way.

Because God is absolute, the knowledge that explains Him is absolute Science, pure and complete within itself. And since God is the All-in-all, this Science or theology reveals all there is to know about reality. A no-and-yes answer to a theological question does not necessarily beg the issue but may open the way to a scientific discovery that will give richness and glory to what might have been a pinched and narrow view. One simplistic answer could have ignored all the other dimensions of discovery.

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