Philologos wrote:
I generally stay out of this sort of thing, but here I will go out on a limb.
The key is MYSTERY. Truth that cannot be simply comprehended. The book title - "Your God is too small"? Consider how I am to the Mob and how they are to me. They do not get what I say and do. I do not get what they say and do [though I think I understand THEM better than they understand ME].
If God [hypothetical first cause, whatever] is smaller than us, like a dumb GIGO computer, se we could design him, the Universe is doomed.
If God is the same size and type as us, so we [or a given NT, whichever] could understand what he was doing, the Universe is doomed - I know I can not grasp it and could not run it.
If God designed and runs the Universe, he has to be bigger - more complex - very different in operation. In which case there is no way everything he does will make "sense" to me, just as what I do makes little sense to my dog.
I usually stay out of this sort of thing too, but I'm having a slow week at work and I'm bored.
I like your reasoning here. I like to think of it in this way. If I sit my dog down and explain to her where her dinner comes from, she will never understand.
The thing is, I want to understand God's ways and it frustrates me that there are some things I don't understand.
Since God is so inscrutable it's best to stick to scrutables. The universe is full of dandy mysteries and studying them gives real and useful results. To hell with God.
04 Feb 2010, 10:57 am
