The Fourth Dimension And The Bible

The unseen world as depicted in the Bible is examined through mathematics by one of the 20th century's most celebrated mathematicians: William Anthony Granville, former instructor of Mathematics at Yale and president of Gettysbury Collete.

In this sequel to The Fourth Dimension, Volume 1, Dr. David Yonggi Cho shows how you can develop the dynamic faith and true communion with God which overcome spiritual obstacles and surpass barriers.

From the Preface. That philosophy and the physical sciences, when called to the defense of Christianity, have so often proven to be broken reeds has been a keen disappointment to many sincere seekers after the truth. A little reflection, however, will make clear that in the very nature of things such failures must inevitably result, because structures resting on shifting sand can never serve as strong buttresses. No two systems of philosophy agree and every philosopher is continually tinkering with his own system. There is no final authority in philosophy to which an appeal can be made. Such being the case it is obviously not to be expected that philosophy can furnish us with proofs of the truths of Christianity whose validity will be generally recognized. And the sciences have also fallen short for similar reasons. The foundations of our physical sciences are far from stable. To doubt the principles of the conservation of energy, the conservation of matter, or the Indivisibility of the atom, would have been considered as rank scientific heresy a few years ago; today all physicists are familiar with phenomena which contradict one or more of them. The Einstein Theory of Relativity is now opening up new fields for scientific investigation which promises results that will practically revolutionize many current fundamental scientific concepts. In fact, the foundation principles on which the physical sciences rest have been changing so rapidly of late that practically all the science text-books now used in our schools are more or less obsolete. The physical sciences as well as philosophy are in a constant state of flux and flow as well as of growth, and this must necessarily continue to be the situation until the ultimate truth is reached, If it is ever attained, in these domains of knowledge. As all will readily agree that the limits of these regions have not yet been reached and, what is more, that these limits are not even measurably in sight, it is evident that we cannot reasonably expect that much constructive light will be thrown on Christianity now or in the near future by either philosophy or the physical sciences....

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Excerpt from The Fourth Dimension and the Bible Pure mathematics is the vanguard of all the sciences, it has marched centuries in advance of them all. For instance, Calculus was discovered nearly two hundred years before the science of Chemistry was far enough advanced to allow the use of Calculus as. One of its instruments of re search. Practically the same thing is true of all the other physical sciences, including engineering. It may he, therefore, that the science of theology is not yet far enough advanced to admit of the ready use of mathematics as an instrument of research. Today mathematicians are forging ahead into' realms of abstract thought and pure logic as never before; judging from. The past, some of the truths which they are revealing now may not be put to what we are pleased to call practical use for centuries to come. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.