(May 12, 2016 at 4:53 pm)Thena323 Wrote:Exactly!(May 12, 2016 at 9:37 am)Drich Wrote: What if what needs to change is your understanding of God?
What if He is not limited to the realm of the "Supernatural?" God is the creator of the NATURAL world, WHY would He create something He could only "move/act" supernaturally in?
Why would or should the actions of a God who moves in the natural world, be indistinguishable from the ordinary/mundane?
God hides from those who see themselves as 'wise' in the Mundane. Look at who he choose to lead the jews out of egypt, look at How Jesus came into the world, Look at Jesus' ministry. The 'mundane' is a tool or a pattern God repeated uses through out the bible to set himself apart from the pictures and ideas that people think 'God' is supposed to be and act like.
Can you imagine how up setting it was to the holiest of holy Jews to expect or almost demand that the messiah be born as past kings were born and follow and honor their traditional views, but instead their messiah came in the way of they would dismiss as a common man save for the fact that He could do thing they could not explain.
So now fast forward 2000 years and lets say we can explain some of Jesus was able to do. does that change anything? does it change the fact that on demand he can use the natural process that have been put into place since the beginning to effect his will or the will of the Father?
That is how God Hides Himself from the 'wise' and reveals Himself to the Humble. The Humble are willing to forgo their understanding of God and take Him as He is. while the 'wise' of this world expect God to be certain things.
You for example demand God be supernatural and always mystical. What if God doesn't want to be unknowable? Who then should win out? Your picture of a always unknowable supernatural being? Or what the Alpha and Omega wants for himself?
So then if He presents as something you do not expect then is He not hidden to you? Just like He said He would do?
