David Turner Blog

For my degree I have been studying a module on Faith and Science, one of the things I came across was the idea of the God of the gaps - that there are the things we know and things that we don't and God fills the gaps, where we don't understand something, God, must be the answer. As scientific discovery went on and explained more of the world that we live in, people began to believe that there was no need for the God of the gaps, we will begin to know and discover everything for ourselves. I have been wrestling with a few things of late. There is suffering in our world, and I know in my head and my heart the Christian response to such pain; that God meets us in our suffering, as shown by Jesus on the cross, that God has a desire for the world to be as it should rather than how it is. But this still leaves a gap, a gap between what is and what should be. What fills the gap? This has been my question to God of late. Is it our faith? We suffer and struggle, people die or are...