SUPERnatural!

Let’s see if I’ve got this straight:

There is a supernatural God out there

Who desperately wants us to believe in him

Yet deliberately hides from us direct evidence of himself

Well, I mean, except for miracles, right?

Yet what is the definition of a miracle

But the blatant intervention of a supernatural God into the natural world

In other words

A discrete addition or removal of energy from an otherwise closed system

For Theists, this is what a miracle must be

Or else matter and physics must be considered substantially unreal altogether

Question:  Given that the most commonly reported miracle is a mental one

(i.e. the intervention of a supernatural God into the thinking brains of persons)

Then why don’t we see more Theists exploring neuroscience?

Looking for a tell-tale anomalistic blip of energy going in or out of the brain?

Or at least searching for the interface where soul should meet gray matter?

Is it because ultimately Theists (like most religious persons)

Don’t want to risk posing their theology in a falsifiable way?

Alas, for the Theism, testing for God has always been considered heresy in any form

Else its dogma could not wield such authority.

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Yet consider an alternative:

Everything is IN God, rather than BY God
All matter and all minds, every known thing and every mystery is IN God

And miracles, should they be real, must occur within the net energy of the universe

Otherwise known as ‘God’

Nevertheless the good news put forth by Pan-en-theism

Is that God can never hide

Let alone require conditional beliefs

Of other-worldly hidden forces

For the desperate sake of our slippery souls

So let us allow physics and phenomenology
To speak wholly and plainly to our faith

Alas for Pan-en-theism, perhaps the best way to have faith

Is simply
IN God.