"An oracle within my heart on the transgression of the wicked: there is no fear of God before their eyes." Ps. 36:1 (Rev. Marg.)
Herein is the key difference between a child of God and a child of the devil: to the former, God is everything; to the latter, God is nothing, not just in an abstract and conceptual sense but also in an absolute sense. To the Christian, God is the abiding reality; to the unbeliever (esp. in our time) God is non-existent, lost, and dead. The two great tragedies that have laid the foundation for the two great crises of this age are (1) the overt attempt to absolutely define and categorize a God whose thoughts are unsearchable and ways past finding out (Rom. 11:33), and (2) the subsequent "loss" of God when Human reason could no longer track Him.
Unfortunately, Christians today do very little (esp. in the western world) to remedy this "loss" of God precisely because most Christians have no fear of God either. We have become (in Mr. Chamber's words) "rationalistic infidels"; we have been infected by the modern disease of run-away rationalism, though we are unaware of its symptoms because it has so ingrained itself into our cultural thinking. We too, like unbelievers, believe that if our rational mind cannot encompass a thing, then there must be something wrong with that thing rather than our minds. What arrogance! It is indeed a loss of the fear of God, the reverence of God, when we think that our limited, feeble, childish minds can comprehend the incomprehensible.
-Jon Vowell
Herein is the key difference between a child of God and a child of the devil: to the former, God is everything; to the latter, God is nothing, not just in an abstract and conceptual sense but also in an absolute sense. To the Christian, God is the abiding reality; to the unbeliever (esp. in our time) God is non-existent, lost, and dead. The two great tragedies that have laid the foundation for the two great crises of this age are (1) the overt attempt to absolutely define and categorize a God whose thoughts are unsearchable and ways past finding out (Rom. 11:33), and (2) the subsequent "loss" of God when Human reason could no longer track Him.
Unfortunately, Christians today do very little (esp. in the western world) to remedy this "loss" of God precisely because most Christians have no fear of God either. We have become (in Mr. Chamber's words) "rationalistic infidels"; we have been infected by the modern disease of run-away rationalism, though we are unaware of its symptoms because it has so ingrained itself into our cultural thinking. We too, like unbelievers, believe that if our rational mind cannot encompass a thing, then there must be something wrong with that thing rather than our minds. What arrogance! It is indeed a loss of the fear of God, the reverence of God, when we think that our limited, feeble, childish minds can comprehend the incomprehensible.
-Jon Vowell
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