Thanks Prof! This is good! Much appreciated!

I saw the ultimate example of what you are describing in a Free Methodist church a few years ago around Easter time. They were putting on a play at night, and a woman playing the character of Mary Magdalene was speaking about the Last Supper. She quoted Jesus' words of institution as saying "This represents my body." My jaw hit the floor when I heard that. Whoever wrote that play revised the Scripture specifically to override the actual text with Zwinglian doctrine (which, btw, even John Wesley himself would not have agreed with).

In science, we follow where the evidence leads us, no matter what. According to experiments, light is both a particle and wave. Does that make sense? No, it violates the law of non-contradiction, but we can’t rewrite the experiment to come to our own conclusions. In quantum mechanics, a particle can be in two places at once. It doesn’t make sense, but no matter what, that is what our experiments show. String theory, on the other hand, is a beautiful math theory which makes sense, but doesn’t fit experimental reality. Another example where things making sense don’t correspond to reality. Theology is like a math professor who needs to cover a lot of content. God reveals the final answer, and the proof is left as a exercise to the reader. He reveals things that don’t make sense, like being at every last supper, or being a Trinity but one. When one quantum researcher was asked why quantum mechanics is true, he retorted, “Shut up and calculate”. Perhaps we might know why logically light is both a particle and wave someday, just as we might know someday why God can be both infinite but finite in his human nature, but until then, we ought to “Shut up and go to church”.