not of this world

Monday, February 6, 2006

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i read the other day that when C.S. Lewis first came to believe in God, he was deeply frustrated that he could never come to know anything beyond that He was. he considered coming to knowledge of God to be as impossible as Hamlet being able to come to know Shakespeare. he reasoned that the only way that Hamlet could come to know Shakespeare is if Shakespeare wrote himself into the play as a character accessible to Hamlet. and then, a ways down the road, he realized that that is precisely what God did with the Incarnation…

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  1. YES! Therefore, one must speak of God as comprehensible and incomprehensible at once. In fact, to even discuss his incomprehensibility is to assert knowledge. How else could we get out of the riddle unless we had the Incarnation, or the holy scriptures, or God’s acts in history (Hebrews removal from Egypt).

    Good post.

    Comment by overlyconscious — Tuesday, February 7, 2006 @

  2. Good One. Hey, call, like you said. I hate suspense. Toodles

    Comment by Mary Poppins NOT (Renee) — Friday, February 10, 2006 @

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