Galileo Galilei said that ‘Both the Holy Scriptures and nature proceed from the Divine Word ‘.
Galileo was a great scholar of the Bible as well as of nature. He came to understand things about God and his prophecies as very few others did for a long time before (and much later) his era.
In contrast to the myopic and authoritarian position of the clergy, Galileo sincerely investigated the fields of knowledge accessible to him, placing faith in the Bible as inspired by God’s word (and therefore truth) and in science as a cognitive tool of material reality. In accordance with this, those who today study the Bible with humility and sincerity, discover that it is never in contrast with true science (on the other hand, dogmas of false religion are today and have been in the past, because they are not based on ‘the Holy Scriptures’).
The thing that struck me about the sentence reported at the beginning, however, was the concept, very simple indeed and if we want to be obvious (Occam), that the information contained in the Bible and nature come from the same source.
We often mention the writing of Isaiah 40:26 to affirm that God is the source of energy, and therefore of everything that surrounds us (matter = energy), and this also agrees with the idea of a “Big Bang” thought as an unimaginable “ignition” of energy that develops in the universe and all that it contains.
But I like to dwell on thinking that, given that all the energy (and matter) existing in the universe is not prey to chaos but follows a cloud of very precise physical laws (even if they are not all known yet, and it seems that not never will be), it becomes clear that Jehovah God is the source of information . Everything around us can be thought of in terms of energy configured according to certain parameters. It is easy for me to make a comparison with an immense software: every particle, each quantum, could be represented as a variable of an infinite weaving of equations programmed to support the material existence , fed by the spirit of God (energy, dynamics).
Natural laws, so to speak, assume the value of “divine programming language” .
Now, what does the Bible have to do with this? Galileo, in the quote above, does nothing but declare his agreement with 2 Timothy 3:16, which tells us that the Holy Scriptures (all those belonging to the biblical canon, and not just some, nor others) are inspired or breathed by God. Galileo also confirmed the need for the information contained in the Bible in order to have a notion of what cannot be investigated with material means. The information contained in the Bible comes from a higher level tan that in which the physical universe resides.
In a nutshell, through the Bible God speaks to us of truth that we cannot see with our eyes. There are many things that we cannot see with the naked eye, but spiritual things are not visible even with the aid of technological tools: they can become only with instruments of the corresponding and right nature, that is spiritual. The Holy Scriptures are the container of this benign gift that the Creator has given us.
Zephaniah 3:9 speaks of it: “For then I will change the language of the peoples to a pure language, So that all of them may call on the name of Jehovah, To serve him shoulder to shoulder.“ this pure language, and to enjoy a supranational brotherhood. Whoever serves Jehovah knows this well. This pure language is not a spoken language, but is the truth about God and his purposes, contained in the Bible. Why does this make it possible to “serve shoulder to shoulder”? Is not the purpose of all religions, in theory?
Many make the mistake, conditioned by the culture of Christianity, of thinking that the Bible or religion must be a series of rules such as “do” and “not do”, detailed in an age different from ours and therefore having a validity that has now lapsed if not at all, at least in good part.
That is not the case.
Jehovah invites us to know and study his word for this reason. The sincere and humble scholar (like Galileo) will be able to learn this “pure language”: the values, the way of thinking of God. As in learning a new language it is not enough to memorize the words, but it is necessary to acquire a new way of thinking, new mental patterns, the same is true when we begin to learn “pure language”. This language comes from the source of information, from above, and is therefore something unique and superior to any other human notion.
Hebrews 4:12 tells us that “For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints from the marrow, and is able to discern thoughts and intentions of the heart.“ A simple book could not do this. Instead, a book that contains the thought of God, can. And it does.
Beyond the style with which human writers physically composed the writings that went to make up the Bible, the information that lurks within their words (they were inspired or guided by God) is of a higher order, and logically is not linked to the language (and related sounds) in which the manuscripts were composed or still translated.
The Bible is the only valid guide for man because it was written for us by the Creator of all things; it resonates in reality . Whether we can understand it or not, we are able to live in one reality, and the rules behind its working do not depend on our will. We can choose whether to abide them or ignore them, but they persist independently of our choices; they existed before the individual and will continue to do so even afterwards. These rules, laws, principles, are immaterial and as mentioned before they represent the “programming language” or code with which Jehovah God has produced this reality.
Man has experimented with and analyzed some of these laws, and by acquiring a certain degree of knowledge he has produced a certain technology. But man has chosen to do another experiment, which affects us all. He decided to ignore the principles that God has given to living beings with a conscience and intelligence, endowed with free will.
If you have followed me here with this reasoning, it is clear that a “programmer”, or better, a creator, establishes from the beginning what should happen within the system he devised and what would be harmful for it instead.
This is called establishing what is good and what is bad.
The world is permeated by the crazy idea that man can decide for himself on this. Moreover, it is the (universal) issue on this point that generated the situation in which we are now (see Genesis 3: 5 ).
Many object that the free will of the individual is not compatible with the moral values established by someone else. Good: think of any physical law. Example: free will cannot prevent you from getting your hands into the fire. But the simple will does not allow us to escape the consequences: no matter what, you burn yourself. [It is useless to bring up arguments like “but what if I wore asbestos gloves – but what if I invented an entropy-clearing field – but what if donkeys could fly” because any invention or material product is still based on the rules and protocols of the physical universe. The act of ignoring a physical law is not achieved by exploiting another, but only by being above, outside, the universe system. The programmer can alter any variable at will, he has the power and authority (and he also knows what he’s doing); small entities inside the running software can’t do that.]
So besides talking about spiritual things, the Bible contains the only real message .
The Word of God is living.

Anche la struttura del diamante è un tetraedro. Ovviamente sappiamo collegare tutti l’amore ai diamanti. Ma ora pare che condividano anche la stessa struttura geometrica. Se l’amore è propriamente costruito, condivideranno anche la stessa durezza, e saranno entrambi per sempre.




