Are We Obsessed With Order and Precision?

The culture of modern man is obsessed with precision so much so that we are able to measure microscopic organisms—things we cannot even see!  And oh how we love to reduce our equations to the lowest common denominator, and, of course, we like to measure our time with atomic clocks (accurate to within one second in 30 million years—now we’re talkin’).  Is it possible that our obsession with precision and order might have theological ramifications?  The thought occurred to me this morning that this obsession with order and precision might be an idol, a false god.  How so?  While pondering the sacrament of baptism and the process of salvation, I was going over some of the arguments about the order of salvation.  Is it simply a matter of hearing the gospel and making a decision?  Does belief “cause” man to be born again?  And if so, how does a man, who is dead in his trespasses and sins, come to believe in the first place?  Some would say that God enlivens (causes to be born again) the otherwise dead man who subsequently hears the gospel and believes unto salvation…in spite of my personal opinions about this, I realize that at some level I am making an idol of order and robbing God of the glory surrounding his miracle of salvation.  I love theology (and empirical thought) but maybe we should pause, take a breath and simply “bow our knee” to the mystery of such things as the order of salvation and let God be God…just sayin’