Another Thing Science Can’t Do

“The reconstruction of the autographic text is a task outside the competence of science, and any attempt to submit the task to scientific canons will only result in increasing confusion. A process of scholarly reconstruction here makes sense only when undergirded with faith in the living God who controls the flow of all historical events. If, in order to be ‘scientific,’ we eliminate this God from from our considerations, the end of the road will be no text at all, or radical confusion about the text” (Mother Kirk, p. 56).