Prove all things

I have written, or at least implied, how Christianity is an objective way of looking at things.  To be more specific, while it recognizes the limitations of human understanding, while it encompasses essential elements of mystery, it is founded on objective truth in the common way we have always understood objective truth.  It is founded on empirical evidence.  Certainly that empirical evidence is also unfolded by theory - theology I suppose is the "theoretical" aspect of Christianity.  That is in the same sense that physicists use the terms.  The data are the data - as long as your measurements are sound.  The explanation of the data requires theory and theory is buttressed by evidence as well as self-consistent logic.  Scripture exhorts us to do nothing less in our life of faith.

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)

Paul implies that we should passionately dig into the way in which we conduct ourselves and the specific guiding principles we use in life.  (And of course we should have guiding principles.)  These things should be tested with the instruments of faith - through reason.  Our faith is a gift, but that does not mean the truth itself is not objective.  When we know then what is good, what a joy it is to hold it fast; it is a solemn duty, but a happy one.