How does everything stick together?
The biblical doctrine of “coherence” is the answer.
Watch our Truth in Two to find out why (full text below).
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FULL TEXT
How does honey get to your breakfast table or find its way into your afternoon tea? Every 16-ounce honey bear in your pantry exists only because tens of thousands of bees flew some a hundred thousand miles in a relentless, unquestioned pursuit of nectar gathered from 5 million flowers. By the time the life of each ended—they live all of six weeks during honey-making season—each bee flew about 500 miles in twenty days, the span each lives outside the hive.
Wow. What bees do to give us sweet flavor in our food is astounding! Honey production is just one small example of what Christian thinkers call coherence. We humans want to make sense of reality. We seek consistency, unity, and wholeness. We want to know everything coheres, which simply means how everything sticks together.
The first verse of the Bible teaches coherence. “The heavens and the earth,” in the Hebrew mind, included everything from A to Z. Believers and unbelievers alike declared The Hebrew God created and unified all things. Prophets throughout Scripture declare the same—all things come from and are held together by the God of the Bible.
John Amos Comenius—the namesake of The Comenius Institute—believed in coherence which he called “pansophy”—wisdom gained throughout the world. All great universities seek the same thing—the coherence of all knowledge. In fact, that is the definition of university: uni = one, versity = many. The great question for all universities is “How do many studies fit together?”
For educators like me, coherence allows the study of everything from A to Z. Scientists, grammarians, counselors, economists, historians, mathematicians, educators in all disciplines – and yes, even bees – depend on coherence to do their work.
For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, President of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking Truth wherever it’s found.
[Reshot for green screen effects. First published here on 29 May 2018: https://warpandwoof.org/honey-bees-coherence-2-min-video/ ]