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I agree. Thinking we know God too well is class....<br /><br />I agree. Thinking we know God too well is classic hubris.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-25202866178650177262014-01-12T20:37:34.746-08:002014-01-12T20:37:34.746-08:00I've always struggled to accept the idea that ...I've always struggled to accept the idea that to worship God, we must understand his characteristics. I think JS said something similar, so it's a well established idea. <br /><br />God is our father, but he is infinite, eternal, and glorified, while we are fallen mortals, seeing through a glass, darkly. His ways are not our ways, neither are his thoughts our thoughts. All things are before him, past, present and future coexisting in an eternal now outside of time. How are we to understand his characteristics?<br /><br />My worship is much closer to e.e. cummings':<br /><br />i thank You God for most this amazing<br />day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees<br />and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything<br />which is natural which is infinite which is yes<br /><br />(i who have died am alive again today,<br />and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth<br />day of life and love and wings:and of the gay<br />great happening illimitably earth)<br /><br />how should tasting touching hearing seeing<br />breathing any--lifted from the no<br />of all nothing--human merely being<br />doubt unimaginable You?<br /><br />(now the ears of my ears awake and<br />now the eyes of my eyes are opened)<br /><br />Or Messiaen's mysterious, distant, tender, brooding, loving, thunderous God the Father:<br />http://open.spotify.com/track/6CFoc28wwIl7t60RUrbF3R<br /><br />I don't feel I need to understand God's characteristics to worship him. It is enough that he is, and that I am. <br />RecessionConehttp://www.twitter.com/RecessionConenoreply@blogger.com