My Hero For Christ

My all time best ever hero is Johannes Kepler, and his Christianity plays a big part in what made him so very amazing. It was a very modern form of Christianity, interested in observable truth in nature and a complete lack of interest in sectarian violence that so troubled Europe at the time.

Kepler showed the way for a good Christian (or good anyone) to do science. He believed that the movements of the planets around the sun were ordained by God and that the most logical way for God to do so would be what he called the Platonic solid model. He had a vision of how the solar system was an image of God, with the Sun corresponding to the Father, the stellar sphere to the Son, and so on and so forth. He spent a lot of effort trying to prove his vision of what he believed, but it didn’t work. Painful as it was, he rejected it because he believed in truth, and that to follow God was to follow truth.

- Duncan W. (Wellington)