The Horrors of Evolution (Evolution)

by edinburgh4 , Saturday, September 06, 2008, 23:15 (5920 days ago) @ Carl

If God's judgements are unsearchable and His path beyond tracing, how can we know anything about Him?
 
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"
"Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?" For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
Romans 11:36 - If God is all powerful and he chose to remain hidden no one could find Him. If he chose to reveal himself in all his glory no one could ignore him. If he is all knowing we can follow his thoughts with our brains that have finite capacity. - I can simulate a Commodore 64 (64KB) on my PC (3GB) but I could not simulate my PC on my Commodore 64. However if I could connect my C64 to a my and PC with proper protocols and wires the Commodore could find out specific information as and when it needed it. - God's intellect is greater than ours this does not mean he is completely unknowable but that his completeness is unknowable. - In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.
Hebrews 1:1-2 - One way the Bible says God has made himself knowable is through the Bible. If God tells us straight out what he thinks we don't have to guess at it or run psychological experiments to trace out his thoughts. Christians have a doctrine called: - "The necessity and sufficiency of scripture." - Necessity means that, God has a purpose behind every word in the Bible.
Sufficiency means that he has given us enough to know what we need to know. - This is good but it can still be hard for us to put it together. This is why God sent his Son Jesus. If God became a human being we as human beings could see what he is like. If Jesus is the Word of God and the Bible is the Word of God then the two are in perfect agreement. To know Jesus and understand the Bible would be the same thing. Jesus' actions surprised intellectual religious leaders he did not follow the rules they made or the interpretations they placed on scripture. This made them want to kill him. Jesus' words to them were not polite: - "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers! "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Matt 23:27
 
Jesus is no more polite when it comes to the church: - "To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Rev 3:14-18