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If you are paying close attention, you may wish to cry, "Foul!". You may observe that it appears that I am using the Bible as fact when I haven't proven it to be fact. If this were the proof section of the presentation, it would in fact be cheating, but we are still in the introduction. | If you are paying close attention, you may wish to cry, "Foul!". You may observe that it appears that I am using the Bible as fact when I haven't proven it to be fact. If this were the proof section of the presentation, it would in fact be cheating, but we are still in the introduction. | ||
Revision as of 14:16, 2 March 2018
The unknowable God
Did that title disturb you in the least? It has been such a common phrase used in and outside of the church that we rarely give it a thought. Everyone knows that God is unknowable. We don't flinch at the thought of God being unknowable, but we flinch at the accusation we would fight over the unknowable:
- “It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.”
― E. Haldeman-Julius (a guy with a black and white photo on the internet, so it must be true.)
The accusation makes us flinch while subtly we embrace the forced idea, like a magician forcing upon us, the card he wants us to have. The intellectual sleight of hand distracts us from recognizing the same old challenge of the serpent: Did God really say? (Ge 3) Did you really hear him right? Did you understand? Certainly your reason is better than your hearing or memory.
- Isa 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
But God said:
If you are paying close attention, you may wish to cry, "Foul!". You may observe that it appears that I am using the Bible as fact when I haven't proven it to be fact. If this were the proof section of the presentation, it would in fact be cheating, but we are still in the introduction.
