In class Thursday, we discussed God's comprehension of reason versus our own. It was brought up that certain parts of the Christian faith don't seem to be reasonable in our own feeble minds. Well, I've thought about it, and come to the humbling conclusion that God doesn't operate on our terms. To those of us who have given the matter a great deal of thought may be resorting to the oh-so-called-for DUH but stay with me for a second. It's widely accepted among Christians that the Almighty (that name alone chastises us for limiting Him to our realm of reason) doesn't operate on our timetables, our agendas, or have to be restricted to our sin nature so why in the world to we restrict Him to our comprehension of reason? I mean, do we really want the God of the Universe acting under our realm of reason that is so often erred? It just doesn't make sense to me.
This being said, I have run into discussions of this sort in the past week in both my philosophy and Literature classes and I must say what I truly feel (though some might call it ignorant). I'm ok with not knowing. Taking things on faith from the One who created me as well as everything I can see, touch, or feel, doesn't seem ignorant to me. It seems like the only "logical" thing to do. I do agree that God gave us minds to form our own opinions about practices of this world or metaphors He used in the Bible but at some point, our questions only get us so far. I firmly stand in my opinion that if God gives tells you something in His Word outright and leaving no room for error, we as Christians need to just realize that we DON'T know everything and believe the omnipotent Heavenly Father!! Now, if I get to Heaven and He tells me, "Malory, that was figurative, I really created the earth in 6000 years rather than six and that is how all of you got your fossils, ok. I fully believe I could be wrong in my belief but it's my conviction and I stand by it. I'd rather err on the side of caution.
In conclusion, my whole basic point with this is that we shouldn't try to box God's reason and logic into our feeble minds. All it will do is take time away from spreading His Word and doing what He's called us to do. That, and it will give us unnecessary headaches. :)
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Malory, I think you have made a great point. I think so many times we, as Christians, are so reluctant to follow God's will and commands for our lives simply because we don't understand them. Our finite minds can't bear all the vast knowledge and awesomeness of God much less understand His ways. I believe that is where faith leads us to follow after Him, not because we can reason things out in our minds but because God has given us a command and given us faith to obey that command.
ReplyDeleteAmen!! This is a great post; it is well thought through and has true substance. We should remain humble as we realize over and over again how much we just don't know as human beings. We can let it frustrate us to the point of headaches, or we can trust Him and continue to seek Him, obey Him, and love Him more each day.
ReplyDeleteUs silly humans. We have this flaw that we have to try to make EVERYTHING about us, even when it comes to our creator. Thats why we do this. We MUST understand EVERYTHING about God....or...or...He may be more important than us!(This is where you all gasp)
ReplyDeleteWe tend to do it with everything else too...even scripture! I mean, look back at just about every sermon you've heard preached about the story of say....Joseph. We look at how he stayed strong and trusted God when his brothers sold him, and he went through all the crap that he did. We look at how God brought him out of prison. We look at how he fled from the temptation of sexual impurity. We look at all these things, and we forget that Joseph is NOT the hero of this story! GOD is the hero of this story! Yeah, it's nice to have an example of how to flee sexual immorality, and to stay strong when life sucks, but I find this story MUCH more powerful when we realize that its there to show us that GOD was there when life sucked. That GOD gave Joseph the strength to flee. That GOD had a plan and was faithful to fulfill it.
Okay. I'm done preaching =D
oh and i commented on kimberly goza's "Who am I to question Him?"
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