"Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer...[who] frusrateth the signs of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backwards, and maketh their knowledge foolish; that confirmeth the word of His servant, and performeth the counsel of His messengers..." Isaiah 44:24-26
The oddity of Christians is that while most men are content to stop with mere logic and common sense, Christians find a restless need to transcend mere logic and common sense to their source, i.e., God. In effect, Christians are trying to be more logical and more common sensical than mere logic and common sense allow. By accounting for God in the events of life, Christians add a new premise to reality that does not negate logic or common sense; actually, it changes the argument entirely: "Yes, yes, I know logic and common sense and the past all say this, but God said this, and He is the Lord of logic, common sense, and the past." Faith takes the child of God to God Himself; thus, they can know in a way that merely logical or common sensical men can never know.
That God frustrates the wisdom of men does not mean that He is against wisdom itself, for He is wisdom itself. What God is against is human wisdom, wisdom that does not account for God. Our reason is a wondrous faculty, but unless it is augmented with faith, it can never know as God knows, and thus mere reason (divorced from faith) becomes a handicapped way of thinking.
"Reason and Faith
Were meant to Dance
And take us to Your Heart..."
-Jon Vowell
The oddity of Christians is that while most men are content to stop with mere logic and common sense, Christians find a restless need to transcend mere logic and common sense to their source, i.e., God. In effect, Christians are trying to be more logical and more common sensical than mere logic and common sense allow. By accounting for God in the events of life, Christians add a new premise to reality that does not negate logic or common sense; actually, it changes the argument entirely: "Yes, yes, I know logic and common sense and the past all say this, but God said this, and He is the Lord of logic, common sense, and the past." Faith takes the child of God to God Himself; thus, they can know in a way that merely logical or common sensical men can never know.
That God frustrates the wisdom of men does not mean that He is against wisdom itself, for He is wisdom itself. What God is against is human wisdom, wisdom that does not account for God. Our reason is a wondrous faculty, but unless it is augmented with faith, it can never know as God knows, and thus mere reason (divorced from faith) becomes a handicapped way of thinking.
"Reason and Faith
Were meant to Dance
And take us to Your Heart..."
-Jon Vowell
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