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To: jo kus
We only understand enough to know we don't understand!

If that is the extent of your understanding, then go back to your Bible and read it, jo kus. There's plenty to grasp.

"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ." -- 1 Peter 3:15-16

"And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist." -- Luke 21:13-15


8,050 posted on 10/03/2007 11:00:06 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; kosta50
I wrote: We only understand enough to know we don't understand!

Dr. E responded: If that is the extent of your understanding, then go back to your Bible and read it, jo kus. There's plenty to grasp.

Thanks for the quotes, but they don't tell us much about God's Life and how we interact with Him. This saying is relatively a common idea - that man is blinded by the light of God and is left feeling ignorant of who God is.

One of the greatest minds of the Church, Thomas Aquinas, had a vision of God near the end of his life. After this, he made the statement that all of his previous writings were as straw. It is a fairly universal tradition of the mystics of the Church, Catholic and Orthodox, that God is found in the "cloud of unknowing".

We come to true knowledge of God through experiencing Him in prayer, not by reading about Him in the Bible...

Regards

8,062 posted on 10/03/2007 12:25:03 PM PDT by jo kus
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