"You Are Not Impressed Enough" | The Math Behind Jesus' Greatest Miracle - Path to Paradise Ep.22

I went back to graduate school because of Hope's depression, not as a career path to ...

but to try to become an expert in depression to help my wife, because she'd been depressed for 12 years and nothing had helped, and it was dominating everything in our life and family.

And so I went back to the field of professional psychology.

And professional psychology, much like medicine and, uh, some other disciplines, is founded in the scientific method, and the scientific method is basically, if you wanna boil it down really just to its root, it's to observe nature and see what happens, and see what happens consistently to try to make assumptions, theories, and then maybe prove those assumptions through testing.

But the purpose of it is so that we know more about ourselves, the world, life, health, relationships, all of that, and can live a better, fuller, happier, healthier life.

Uh, God addresses that in the Bible in Romans 1 where he says that at the end of this world, no one, m- not one single person, no one will be without excuse, because everywhere you look in nature, nature gives evidence and testimony to God.

Meaning that if you really honestly, from all angles, with an open mind and heart, and experiment and study, what you're gonna find every single time is something that leads you to a conclusion there has to be a God.

There's no other way.

And what we know about this world and life is extremely limited.

There's still way more to know than what we don't know.

I'm- I've got a good friend named Jimmy Nederbel.

We grew up together, actually.

I was closer to his brother, who's younger, and he was closer to my brother, who was older.

And Jimmy is a renowned neurosurgeon that I grew up with in church and school.

And I was sitting by him at a fundraiser, a charity fundraiser, and, uh, we hadn't seen each other in a long time, so we were catching up.

And, um, he asked me, "Well, Alex, what are you doing?" And this was like, uh, 15 years ago.

And so I told him.

And, uh, and then after I told him, I said, "You probably think that's pretty, uh, silly," or I don't remember the word I used, but, uh, crazy or not legitimate or whatever.

And he immediately reacted and said, "No, absolutely not." And then he got a napkin and a, and a pen, and he started drawing on it, and he drew a line.

Uh, let's say the line was about this long as this marker.

And then he said, "My guess is that what we know for sure about the world, science, nature, and health is probably about this much of the line.

And the line represents all possible knowledge about the world, health, us." And he said, "How arrogant and c- and, and ridiculous would it be for me to say that w- the thing you're talking about isn't somewhere in the rest of this that is true, but we just haven't found it yet or been able to confirm it, or we don't have tests that can go that deep or whatever?" He said, "No, what you say sounds really wonderful." He said, "My place is if it's something that doesn't hurt people, my standard line is, 'Well, go try it.

And if it works, please tell me about it so I can tell my other patients about it, and they can get benefit.'" Very different from the kind of normal response from a medical doctor, and believe me, I know, [laughs] 'cause I've had probably over 100 of those over the last 25 years.