In Reply to: Re: Well, I read it... posted by susie on February 28, 2004 at 02:19:13:
Susie, to emphasize it & clarify it a bit more:
I would like to understand HIM a bit more, wouldn't dislike that idea...however often we're not really ready for a lot of answers...or we "split up" the light somehow & winding up with less...however I think it's futile, to be entirely on a "big brain"-trip, trying to make sense to everythink(ha,actually a spelling mistake!!), in order to enjoy your own life.That's what I meant, I enjoy a meal without really knowing much about the contents in terms of biochemistry...likewise I get fed by reading the Bible...Georg Müller who ran the many orphanages by faith in London some @200 years back, is said to have read the Bible about 100 times in his lifetime...he didn't get tired of it (unlike Berg, who said once, that he knew enough etc.)...it's like you can't stop eating (although people like
the Swiss saint J. v. der Flühe is supposed to have lived most of his latter part of life without
hardly any food in his cottage)...
So sometimes I get books in my hands, which challenge my way of thinking, I have to see, whether my faith is strong enough to "endure" that.I heard once a pretty silly question of the roman emperor Justin, who was raised during childhood by Christians, if I remember right , but later then broke loose from it.For him it was super difficult to imagine, to rise from the dead for someone being devoured once by the lions.....
In the early centuries Apologetics had lots to do to defend the faith, as it sounded so illogical to many...
There might be plenty more in the Bible (Remember: the biblical code), however I'd say, it's for sure all in Jesus: "Christ; in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom & knowledge" Colossians 2:2,3
"And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Ephesians 3:19
While shortly at the university - before joining - studying math, I saw the futility of always trying to figure everything out...the Austrian Mathematician Gödel played a keyrole...while Hilbert still dreamed of being able to formalize all math through a set of axioms & rules, he just put an end to that dream...I made recently a google search about him & found his proof of the
probability of God...may be one day I read it & sometime later hopefully understand it...but actually not really necessary ; )
I learned, that much in Mathematics is just sufficient approximation, sufficient enough for daily life.I like it, when scientists see the limitations of our capacity to think & reflect.
It's like the little boy, who played at the seashore, digging a hole..the passerby (Augustine?) asked, what are you doing there?Well,
I make a hole, to fit the ocean into it, answered the little boy ; )