If God cannot be known, neither can he be felt or experienced in any way. All religion is then empty. But modern philosophical agnosticism makes the same error as ancient Gnosticism. By reducing God to “inexpressible depth” and “eternal silence,” they make the universe godless, in the most absolute sense of the word. What it all comes down to is whether God has willed and found a way to reveal himself in the domain of creatures. This, the Christian church and Christian theology affirm, has indeed occurred. Thanks to revelation, we have a true knowledge of God, knowledge that is relative and finite rather than comprehensive. Incomprehensibility does not imply agnosticism but an ingredient of the Christian claim to have received by revelation a specific, limited, yet well-defined and true knowledge of God. In the words of Basil, “The knowledge of God consists in the perception of his incomprehensibility.
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To Know God is To Live
The knowledge of God is the central, core dogma, the exclusive content of theology. From the start of its labors dogmatic theology is shrouded in mystery; it stands before God the incomprehensible One. This knowledge leads to adoration and worship; to know God is to live. Knowing God is possible for us because God is personal, exalted above the earth and yet in fellowship with human beings on earth.
Glorifying God by Enjoying Him
In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him
The Divine Sugar Daddy
We forget God is not primarily in the business of meeting needs. When we make Him out to be, we squeeze Him out of His rightful place at the center of our lives and put ourselves in His place. God is in the business of being God. Christianity cannot be reduced to God meeting people’s needs, and when we attempt to do so, we invariably distort the heart of the Christian message.
David W. Henderson, Culture Shift (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998), 29.
Christ Who Suffered in Our Place
My thoughts and prayers are with the grieving families in Newtown, CT. The Christmas season was the beginning of the life of the one who can best identify with them, being the one who Himself is a man of sorrows and well-acquainted with grief. Jesus knows and understands, and He is present with those who suffering at this time. God bless them all!
Sometimes it is when we suffer, when we observe the universality of death’s decree, when we are debilitated, when we observe an extraordinarily barbaric bit of cruelty, when we are sidelined by a chronic illness, that we are impelled to pause and reflect on the love of God to sinners and rebels such as we are. We serve the Lord Christ, who suffered in our place, who learned obedience through the trials that he suffered. The trinkets and baubles that otherwise capture so much of our attention fade away, and the eternal things assume their rightful place. Then we know what it means to confess that God’s love is ‘as shoreless and endless as eternity.’
D. A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1992), 194.
Infinite Regard for God’s Justice
He manifested an infinite regard to the attribute of God’s justice, in that, when he had a mind to save sinners, He was willing to undergo such extreme sufferings, rather than that their salvation should be to the injury of the honor of that attribute.
Underestimating God
Holy Scripture, when it depicts God’s wrath against sin, never uses hyperbole; it would be impossible to exaggerate it.
The Character of God
The character of God is a sea, every drop of which should become a wellhead of praise for His people.
C. H. Spurgeon in notes from Treasury of David on Psalm 33.5
How Should I Think of Myself?
What every man is in the eyes of God, that he is, and no more.
In God We Trust
Our Nation’s motto — ‘In God We Trust’ — was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.
Ronald Reagan — Mar. 19, 1981, National Day of Prayer proclamation
Life Is Worship 