Knowing God
It is frustrating to talk with Christians who know everything and have all of the answers. Let us instead remember the words of Rev. Edmund Steimle:
For all of our knowledge and experience of God as they are expressed in creeds and dogma, he is always beyond us, beyond our understanding and reason, beyond all our neat little blueprints and formulas. Which brings me to this: Never be misled into supposing that we Christians think we have God all neatly packaged and labeled for easy distribution and consumption like a package of frozen peas. Our creeds and dogmas only serve to lead us into the "depth of the riches" of God's being. There is a mystery about the nature and ways of God that you and I can never expect to fathom entirely -- otherwise God would not be God. We do but touch the fringe of his garment. But we do believe that the fringe which we touch is real!
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For all of our knowledge and experience of God as they are expressed in creeds and dogma, he is always beyond us, beyond our understanding and reason, beyond all our neat little blueprints and formulas. Which brings me to this: Never be misled into supposing that we Christians think we have God all neatly packaged and labeled for easy distribution and consumption like a package of frozen peas. Our creeds and dogmas only serve to lead us into the "depth of the riches" of God's being. There is a mystery about the nature and ways of God that you and I can never expect to fathom entirely -- otherwise God would not be God. We do but touch the fringe of his garment. But we do believe that the fringe which we touch is real!
+ pax
posted by ivars krafts at
9:15 PM
