Scripture

2 Tim 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

God shows himself through scripture to those who love him, because only those who have come to love God will accept His rebuke, correction, and training in righteousness. “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way” (Isaiah 53:6). That is why only those who have been “quickened” by the Spirit of God will turn from our wayward path and start to follow Him, rather than going our own way. Only then will the worldview of scripture (the Bible) begin to replace the worldviews that have held the believer captive up until the time of “quickening.” This is as true of scientists who become believers as it is of any other believer.

But what is the experience of being “quickened”? Ephesians 2: 4-5 gives us the necessary insight: “But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.” (NIV). It is God’s love and irresistible grace that “quickens us together with Christ” (KJV), or “makes us alive with Christ” (NIV). God’s great love and grace draws us to him – irresistibly – in God’s own timing.