Posted on 04/18/2017 10:20:38 AM PDT by fishtank
Can we know God?
by Lita Cosner
Published: 18 April 2017 (GMT+10)
William Paul Young has written a new book entitled Lies We Believe About God. This serves the useful purpose of vindicating all the people who warned about the bad theology in The Shack who were told to stop worrying because it’s just a story with no theological teaching motive. Lies has a definite teaching motive, and it’s just as chock-full of heresy as his fiction.
But the heresy in Lies is almost entirely a symptom of a foundational error evident in the back cover blurb:
“This book is not a presentation of certainty. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
From the article:
“A lot of the weirdness with Young’s theology
has to do with how he tries to reconcile the goodness of God
with the existence of suffering, and one gets the sense
that he has a lot of personal experience with suffering.
But the Bible deals with the question of suffering
in almost the exact opposite way from Young. “
We CAN know our creator. We can start by calling him by his proper name: https://youtu.be/h1fsCnX-Q24
God’s answer to Job was (paraphrased) “Do you think you know more than I? Where were you when I was forming the world you live on?” In another book he declares, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and compassion on whom I have compassion.”
Not all that comforting when you’re in pain.
It’s as if to say “This is all too big for you to handle.”
But we also read that Godworks for the good of all those who love Him, called according to His purpose.”
For now, that will have to do.
Seems like he has fallen into a common trap, refusing to just believe what God tells us in the Word, because he would rather make up stuff using his own imagination and reasoning.
This doesn’t work, most of all because human reasoning, like everything humans do, is flawed, and simply incapable of the task of discerning the whole truth about a subject like God. This is why we require revelation in order to even approach such truths, and if we won’t trust the revelation, then we will always come to the wrong conclusions.
Knowing God by J.I. Packer
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