I was on youtube when I saw a video about a man arrested for bringing his daughter to church after a restraining order by his Jewish ex-wife/girl's mother against that specific act. As usual for these videos, a comment war over religion was raging (over 2000 comments). The most recent at the time I watched it was a very agnostic comment (he is quoted verbatim, please excuse the grammar, punctuation, and spelling):
religion is hypocritical by nature as it is an institution of man's design claiming to be the presance or manifstation of God (an incompehensible infinity) to man... how can man claim to understand the intentions of that which is by its nature un-understanable.
His less than stellar writing is enough to bother me but his message was uninformed. I replied with the following:
You're applying agnostic thought to a decidedly not-agnostic religion. It's true that God is above and beyond what we are as lowly humans but He repeatedly shows His nature and claims that man is "made in His image". Also, He communicates with us through the Holy Spirit within us. If took the time to study [the Bible], you'd know this.
Do you agree? Disagree? What are your thoughts? I'd love to see some Bible verses and commentary on this.
Curiouser and curiouser. It's true, he was not terribly informed (at least in that comment), since God is quite accessable through the Bible. Yes, there are some aspects of God that cannot be explained in human terms, and there are some aspects of God that cannot be fully understood even when explained. However, God is perfectly understandable in a certain sense, because as His creations we are MEANT to connect with Him.
ReplyDeleteAnd even when we do not get it at all, Christ's example on earth shows that He understands us completely.