Natural laws do not exist for faith.
St. Isaac emphasizes this very strongly:
“All things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23), for with God nothing is impossible. Natural knowledge constrains its disciples from “drawing near to that which is alien to nature,” to that which is above nature.
This natural knowledge to which St. Isaac refers appears in modern philosophy under three headings:
- realism based on the senses,
- epistemological criticism, - and monism.
These three approaches all limit the power, reality, force, worth, criteria, and extent of knowledge to within the bounds of visible nature—to the extent that these coincide with the limits of the human senses as organs of knowledge.
To step beyond the limits of nature and to enter into the realm of the supernatural is considered to be against nature, as something irrational and impossible, forbidden to the followers of the three philosophical paths in question.
Directly or indirectly, man is limited to his senses and dare not pass beyond them.
St Justin Popovich
