My thoughts on the subject, welcome or not:) Sometimes I just like to ramble, so if you can, be patient with me.... I'm an unfinished and unworthy vessel still.
Been thinking about this a while and I keep thinking about the old testament vs. the New Testament. The old testament was the letter of the law
complete with all the rules that everyone can comprehend in the physical, even carnal world. The leaders of all the world analyzed and finalized, and added their own interpretation's, and even more binding regulations in governmental, educational, economical, and of course the religious systems. What could go wrong? What could possibly upset all the theorems, axioms, and "facts", that have concrete evidence in the natural world? If anything could actually prove the systems wrong, then the whole deck of cards would fall, including the "man" who sits on the throne. Man can't let that happen now can he? I guess they'll just have to kill all the prophets. And then Jesus was born.......upsetting every natural law there was even in conception. His works were against the natural laws, and absolute proof that His Word was Spirit and Truth. They didn't believe His Works, let alone His Word. His works in His earthly life broke every physical law, and He continued showing the disciples how He was master over the physical laws even His resurrected body. Try walking through walls, or just appearing out of nowhere. As Beloved pointed out, Godel's theorem is not a new one. I guess after man's world was shattered by the completeness and perfection of Jesus Christ, they just began to build in the physical again, hoping His followers would just forget or die off. The wolves started creeping in even in Peter and Paul's day until it is just like Ray said, worse than before. The intellectual of the world probably know about Godel's theorem of incompleteness, but they don't care to find out what is "complete". Perhaps this whole physical creation is groaning for that which makes us complete. Yes, I think so. And the perfect and complete will make the rest of this sad, sad world vanity........................that's how we should think of it even now...vanity. Praise the Lord for His complete perfecting....
Rest in the Lord,
Barbara