If I told you 100 years ago that I could write the entire Bible on something as small as my fingernail and then read it; you wouldve said that I was crazy, because no one could ever write that small. If I told people in the 1900s that I could go from California to Russia in 24 hours, I wouldve been branded a lunatic, for no ship could ever sail that swiftly nor could a horse ever run that fast. The problem of course, is that we would be viewing these future exploits through the lens of our current technological understanding. We lack a 100-200 years of revelation, which reduces us to inferior solutions that simply wont solve these superior challenges. We face the same challenges in the scripture every day. For example, God says He loves us more than we could ever understand or imagine. But in the same breath He teaches us that there is a Hell and that some people will go there for eternal punishment. We cant reconcile how a loving God could possibly allow people to go to a place of eternal destruction because we lack a billion years revelation. We often feel pressure to reconcile these mysteries that we view through the lens of our current technology, sort of speak. This often leads us to change the outcomes to explain the challenge. Metaphorically speaking, we say things like, no one could get to Russian in 24 hours, therefore the statement is a misunderstanding. We reason; a God who loves unconditionally could logically never send someone to Hell and therefore it cannot be true. So we create solutions that satisfy our minds and put our souls to rest. The outcome is that we stop searching for revelation for these divine paradoxes because weve created answers to satisfy our minds. And as result, what we think we know keeps us from what we need to know. The truth if we have a God that we completely understand, then we have created a God in our own image. For an infinite God, by definition, must remain somewhat of a mystery to finite man. #kvm
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:45:19 +0000
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