1) Tozer quotes from C.S. Lewis where he sees time as a line with two end points on a plane stretching out infinitely, and God can see everything in time as one time. If this was so, then why did the Israels before Christ came have to live differently and by different standards as after Death? If time for God is one thing, why would one point have to live by different standards as another?
2) on p. 41, Tozer says that within us cries for life... I wonder if this is why people always try to put our knowledge onto other creatures, wether they be fictional or nonfictional. You are always seeing even things like toys and animals depicted as being able to think for themselves, and nit relying on animal instinct. Not too long ago I say a commercial for a new movie about what pets do when their owners leave. Those pets were depicted as being able to think, doing thinks like talking to each other and purposefully doing things like turning on the TV. I'm not saying animals don't have any way of thinking, but I am saying that we are constantly putting our abilities into other things, craving for other life. Now, I know most of this is comical, but we also are looking of life in space in a non comical way, so it can't just be jokes.
3) I am currently learning about ancient civilizations in school, but the fact that God is then and helping people then right now blows my mind. It's hard to think that God is answering every prayer at once. I think I now understand the phrase where to God 1000 years is like a day, and a day is like 1000 years
Daran: your first question is a good one. Very thoughtful. All development or progress - whether it be of revelation of God's character to humanity (called "progressive revelation" and this includes the Law/Torah of the OT and then the Incarnation in the NT), man's own self-understanding (also as revealed by God), etc. is ultimately FOR MAN'S sake. God need none of that. What we experience in time, he experiences in one ever present "now." It is terribly mysterious. The Israelites lived with the knowledge of God (i.e. revelation) that they had, and that knowledge was never changed, taken away or anything. It was affirmed by Jesus: "I came not to destroy the law and the prophets, but to FULFILL them." The heart of the Law never changed, but the means and ability to carry it out did. There were certain elements of the Law that did fall away, but these are not the "weightier matters of the law."
ReplyDeleteThank you, Daran.