Seven major guesses

The limitations of Sense Knowledge are very obvious.

But a strange freak of Sense Knowledge is that when these boundaries of its ability are reached, it either turns philosophical, metaphysical, or speculative.

I want you to think of seven major guesses or speculations of Sense Knowledge.

1. First, Sense Knowledge does not know the origin of Creation or of Matter. This lack of knowledge chagrins and humiliates Sense Knowledge and so it becomes bold in speculation. The guesses in regard to Creation of the Universe and of Matter have filled volumes of books. They do not know how Matter came into being, or when, or why. Sense Knowledge has always denied a personal God; and because it has no God, it has no Creator, so Matter must create itself.
2. The second major guess is the Origin of Life. This has been a painful subject to the speculative scientists. The theories of the Origin of Life fill many volumes and textbooks, but no one with only Sense Knowledge knows where Life began. Every guess, so far, has been laid aside for another, and today they are as far from absolute knowledge as they were when Darwin wrote the "Origin of Species."
3. Third, Sense Knowledge does not know
1. the origin of Motion,
2. or when the Stellar heavens first began their revolutions. If they could discover the Origin of Life, they could discover the Origin of Motion.
4. Fourth, they have never discovered the origin of the government of the universe. Here is a vast universe made tip of constellations of stars and suns, each revolving in its realm and the entire mass revolving around a great center, and yet no one has been able to discover the Author and the Governor of these heavenly bodies.
5. Fifth, they never have been able to discover the Origin of man. Their speculations and their theories have destroyed the faith of millions and wrecked the morals of two generations. There is not one of them that is courageous enough to admit that Sense Knowledge cannot discover the Origin of man. They do not know
1. the Reason for man,
2. nor man's destiny. Man is here. Sense Knowledge can only recognize what it sees and hears and feels.
6. Sixth, Sense Knowledge does not know the Origin of sin. Some have even gone so far as to deny its existence; but its persistence, its evidence of organization staggers the thinking man. A denial does not destroy a fact. Yet Sense Knowledge has no ability
1. to tell where it came from,
2. to point to a cure or
3. a Redemption from its fatal effects.
7. Seventh, Sense Knowledge has no conception of the origin of death, the why of death, or what death is. Sense Knowledge turns poet or becomes metaphysical in the presence of this unknown enemy that hounds us from the cradle to the faltering steps of old age. Sense Knowledge may become lyrical in its presence, but it has no solution. We have seen the limitations of Sense Knowledge. These limitations are limitations that are sometimes vital to man's happiness. Revelation Knowledge is needed to fill the gaps of Sense Knowledge.