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Stuart -

Just trying to relay what God says Himself. You are viewing through the eyes of one whose understanding is limited by a world of time, so you cannot comprehend. Scripture clearly shows that time is a temporary limitation that will someday apparently disapper. I view through the same eyes, but understand that if God is God, He must be so far beyond me that I cannot understand him. Time is one of the dimensions we live in. Top scientists say there may be another 5 dimensions outside of time. Einstein clearly saw that time was not what we think it is, but can be warped.

So what may appear from my (very) limited perspective, I can only trust what He does reveal about Himself to me. He asks me not to understand - I could only do that if I were His equal, and I am less than an atom compared to the Sun compared to Him. How dare I judge Him when He knows all, and my knowledge is so, so limited?

An atheist is a fool (says scripture) because he thinks that while he may possess only 1/1000 millionth of all the knowledge in the universe, his conclusion - on that tiny bit of knowledge - is that there absolutely is and can be no God. The agnostic is at least honest saying he does not know.

Your statement is fully understandable, and not new. Paul met such an argument and addressed it in Romans 9:18 - 23:

“So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?”

On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?

Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?

And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.”

Faith is accepting what God says and believing it when we don’t understand it. Humility is required for faith, for I must admit that my ability to comprehend is limited.

arlis