(November 17, 2017 at 4:43 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Seems like there are many things in Scripture that are indeterminate. Sometimes I think God is intentionally being unclear so people will puzzle over the Word and by doing so grow in wisdom.
Yep. As I often cite:
Prov 25
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
Hodge's Systematic Theology notes that the world is full of data. Science is the practice of organizing the data in meaningful ways and examining relationships among the data. Similarly, the Bible is full of data. Theology is the practice of organizing the data in meaningful ways and examining relationships among the data.
