Subject: Does God have wings? |
Bible Note: Danny, we hear you. There's no need to SHOUT!:-) .... You asked the question, "Where would we be today if Joshua [had] said, 'Well, we have the 5 books of Moses, we have the Law and we don't need anything else'"? ..... There is no record, of course, that Joshua ever said such a thing, so this is a hypothetical question. But even if he had, the answer to where we would be today (in regard to the extent of God's revealed word to man) is that we would be exactly as we are and the Bible would be exactly as it is. God is sovereign: He works His will and does not empower man to do His thinking for Him or to dictate to Him about how much of Himself to reveal and how to reveal it. I'm not sure what you mean, or that you do, when you say that God doesn't limit Himself to a book. I think the sooner all of us are able grasp the significance of the absolute sovereignty of God the sooner we will cease to make sweeping statements that presume to know what God will think, say, or do about things and conditions that are not clearly revealed in Scripture. Man's opinions about who God is -- his nature and attributes -- are totally worthless. All we know or can know about God in this life is revealed in Scripture and only in Scripture. Spiritual maturity means full recognition of the absolute sovereignty of God and equally full recognition of mans's inability to save himself and of his total dependence on the grace of God to save him. Spiritual maturity also means the realization of the finiteness and imperfection of man's wisdom and knowledge, and of the blasphemous futility and ignorance of asking why does God do thus and so or why doesn't God do thus and so, and concomitant with these questions is the presumption that God acts or will act in a certain way based on how we want God to act instead of on what Scripture reveals about how God does act in accordance with His person, His nature and His attributes. To make presumptions about God does or will do based on nothing but human desires or intellect is the mark of a fool. --Hank |