Since I came to Grace Church (Bridgewater), there's these sayings going around: "Life is not science", "The math folks won't get this", "You can't explain this with mathematical equations", etc.
I think these stupid phrases come not from this church alone. It's perhaps my beginning personal encounter of the shallowest fundamentalist influenced kind of Christians. It's likely they've failed math and science. They cannot define terminologies properly. Their guru is probably Ken Ham and the likes. I have yet to pin point the source of these quotes of theirs. So I'll leave this in the Questions category as well.
Recognizing, lots of Bible study verses they touched on are beyond their (only them in most cases) own understanding, they would rather conclude that these are something the science folks (instead of themselves) cannot figure out/understand. Yet, I looked at those verses, I don't see any problem with a rational interpretation of them, especially most of these verses have to do with the aesthetics, artistic literature.
What they actually meant, is "lean not on your own understanding".
The Reformation influenced some of them a bit, or else they would place faith and science mutually exclusive. But they still do not truly grasp the distinction between general and special revelations. They do not see that we are mere interpreters of both revelations, that is, if they get what revelation truly is at all. The rest of their consequent failure is just out of pride and jealousy.
In general, rationality, logic, Math and science are just what we do to make sense of ALL God's revelations. Since these are God's given tools, they can never be wrong, but the users themselves can be wrong.
You can say that God or faith is beyond rationality, supra-rational. If there's something beyond mathematics, for example: love, all mathematicians know this is not something you use mathematics or science for. You cannot say that there's even a slightest chance for faith to contra-reason. To be fair, to say that "this doesn't fit the mathematical equation" can be seen as the insufficiency of human reasoning, which would be correct, however, the folks I was referring to above do not treat it that way. They are implying that either nobody else can figure/understand what they themselves cannot understand or math can be wrong, which has nothing to do with the insufficiency of our own understanding. To say that there is a chance for any of God gifted tools to be wrong is to call God a liar.
The only way to cure them, I think, is to keep fixating on "lean not on your own understanding" instead of "this is not an math equation" (because maybe it is and you just can't figure it out), which is bad English, bad reasoning and bad science. I can try to brainwash them out of this error subtly with care or harsher when needed.
