11 January Contradictions I frequently use the illustration that, if you went into the depth of the Amazon and contacted a stone age tribe that never had seen a white man or heard of such advanced technology as a wheel; how would you explain life in Tokyo to them? How would you explain Skype? Tell them a man who is 100 km away from you is standing next to you talking to you. How do you explain that? The problem that savage has to comprehend modern technology is not as difficult as it is for God to explain spiritual truth to us. Obviously the savage in the Amazon would have to think outside his box. And in like manner, if we dont think outside the box of our known world it is impossible for us to understand spiritual truth. So far we have talked about the inverted kingdom and shown how in the Kingdom of God things are backwards to our natural world. This thesis is interesting and not too difficult to take hold of. But now I want to take this a step further that will be highly controversial. In this world we accept unchallenged that it is impossible to have co-existent contradictions. Either it is hot or it is cold. Either it is up or down. It cant be both. It cant be up and down, left and right together at the same time. I believe in the Kingdom of God this is possible. I say this with deep conviction because I see too much evidence of it in the Bible. The Bible is filled with these contradictory scenarios, and man has maligned reason and logic trying to explain them. Perhaps the most obvious is the very fact of the Trinity. By every law in this world you cant have three being one. I know all the explanations for the Trinity and use them. But they are imperfect, and at the end of the day they still havent explained a thing. I heard Ravi Zachariah give a very deep intellectual, philosophical, explanation of the Trinity, but at the end of his discourse he concluded it is a mystery. Amen. I have no trouble accepting everything in orthodox Christian theology of the doctrine of Christ because I accept that it is beyond me, and things that appear to be contradictory, actually both sides of the argument are true.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:09:19 +0000
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