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"Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean you have a lot of wrong ones."
--C.S. Lewis
What you believe matters. It may well be the only thing that matters. Your beliefs shape every decision you make, from what you had for breakfast this morning to your
career path to whether or not you choose to get married and have children. Every choice you make is too a large degree predetermined by the ideas rolling around in your
head. All those facts you know to be true along with everything you think might be true and all that stuff you hope isn’t true have conspired together to make you who you
are. Ideas are the single most powerful force in the world, and along the way you’ve put together a collection of ideas in your mind and in your heart that have shaped you.
As you continue to add to that collection, your life will evolve and change. You determine your future today by the beliefs you now decide to hold onto as well as those you
choose to reject as false.
This is especially true of your theology, that is, your beliefs about God. The word theology means the study or science of God, just as
biology is the study of life and sociology is the study of social institutions and relationships. Grouping these together may sound strange to our postmodern ears,
but that hasn’t always been the case. In the Middle Ages theology was known as the Queen of the Sciences for it was the unifying principle that drove the study of
every other area of life. We usually think of science and theology as fighting against one another, but the scientific revolution was born out of the Christian world
view. Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Louis Pasteur as well as many other early heroes of science all professed faith in Christ. They believed the universe
was created by a reasonable God, which, in their minds, made scientific discovery possible. In short, their beliefs about God both drove them to the sciences and
worked as the filter through which they interpreted their research.
-- Theology: Think for Yourself about What You Believe
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