Comments on: Moses and John http://anamchara.com/2008/03/27/moses-and-john/ a blog (et cetera) by Carl McColman Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:09:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Peter http://anamchara.com/2008/03/27/moses-and-john/#comment-6522 Peter Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:32:21 +0000 http://mccolman.wordpress.com/?p=814#comment-6522 Yes! to John G and John 1:4 meaning, "The darkness didn't really 'get' the light." God is the light-beyond-light (the light beyond light-and-darkness), the tree of life beyond the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the Oneness behind the primary and secondary dualisms. This means that He is unknowable by analytical reasoning, but He can be seen and known by spiritual revelation: spirit to Spirit. I think this is what you mean by believing: knowing by faith, as in Hebrews 11: "...through faith we understand..." God is greater than the answer to all of our questions, the ultimate "Yes!" So keep pastoring and blessing the people--and enjoying this blog! It's a great place. Peter Yes! to John G and John 1:4 meaning, “The darkness didn’t really ‘get’ the light.”

God is the light-beyond-light (the light beyond light-and-darkness), the tree of life beyond the tree of knowledge of good and evil, the Oneness behind the primary and secondary dualisms. This means that He is unknowable by analytical reasoning, but He can be seen and known by spiritual revelation: spirit to Spirit. I think this is what you mean by believing: knowing by faith, as in Hebrews 11: “…through faith we understand…”

God is greater than the answer to all of our questions, the ultimate “Yes!”

So keep pastoring and blessing the people–and enjoying this blog! It’s a great place.

Peter

]]> By: rodney neill http://anamchara.com/2008/03/27/moses-and-john/#comment-6521 rodney neill Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:21:36 +0000 http://mccolman.wordpress.com/?p=814#comment-6521 great post! Rodney great post!

Rodney

]]> By: John G http://anamchara.com/2008/03/27/moses-and-john/#comment-6517 John G Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:33:34 +0000 http://mccolman.wordpress.com/?p=814#comment-6517 So much of what God answers us is "yes," isn't it? I mean, in the darkness we can find God - just as much as in the light. It's just a different kind of dark and light. Satan/Lucifer doesn't understand God - I think that's why he fell. See John 1:4 - the word in the Jerusalem Bible translated "overpower" and often "conquer" also has the connotation of understanding or comprehending. Also C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters makes a point like this. Of course, that's a significant part of our problem as well - we WANT to understand God and we can't. Nor should we! I'm a pastor who's been lurking here for a couple of weeks - I don't know how many times I get asked "how does communion (or insert any other thing we don't really get) work?" And my answer is so often: "I don't know and nobody else does either. We need to believe." Questioning is great - as long as we understand (there's that word again!) that we will never really know the answers - and that's as it should be. Great blog by the way - I'm looking forward to reading your books! Shalom! John G. (http://jrny.wordpress.com/) So much of what God answers us is “yes,” isn’t it? I mean, in the darkness we can find God - just as much as in the light. It’s just a different kind of dark and light. Satan/Lucifer doesn’t understand God - I think that’s why he fell. See John 1:4 - the word in the Jerusalem Bible translated “overpower” and often “conquer” also has the connotation of understanding or comprehending. Also C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters makes a point like this. Of course, that’s a significant part of our problem as well - we WANT to understand God and we can’t. Nor should we! I’m a pastor who’s been lurking here for a couple of weeks - I don’t know how many times I get asked “how does communion (or insert any other thing we don’t really get) work?” And my answer is so often: “I don’t know and nobody else does either. We need to believe.” Questioning is great - as long as we understand (there’s that word again!) that we will never really know the answers - and that’s as it should be.
Great blog by the way - I’m looking forward to reading your books! Shalom!
John G. (http://jrny.wordpress.com/)

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