With
all the different perspectives about God, I always remember the Apostle Paul’s
constant reminder in his writings where he would always stress the great
need to grow in the Knowledge of God.
This is because knowing God more in the deepest and truest sense will protect
the early Church and even us today from the non-Christian philosophies that
will seriously shaken our view of history, facts, the Law, the Bible per se and
so forth.
The
Knowledge of God is such a critical matter in every Christian’s life that will
determine his destination of faith. As God’s children, we are taken by Him out
from the world of misinterpretation and now placed in His world of truth.
Plainly we can see that in His truth, we are truly set free.
I
am raised in a place dominated by Romanism and so my worldview was initially
shaped in this context of clericalism and all the distortion and offense to the
person of Christ. When I met Christ in my early twenties, I have met different
kinds of Christians who have views that could have shaken my faith early on.
Some of them were Arminians and some were hyper Calvinists. There have been
different kinds of worshippers along the path from Pentecostals to Baptists and
Fundamentalists. It has also been a common thing to encounter Christians who
get confused with the theology of Saving Grace and theology of Common Grace.
Sadly, some would emphasize common grace in their own theology leading to
universalism.
There
were times that I get frustrated with all the various views that seem overwhelming.
God and His absolute truth can be taken too much at times that even the
teachings about the Trinity basically cracks my brain giving me a feeling of
not recovering again but the Lord is good because He constantly reminds us that
we are not to depend on our own understanding but in Him alone.
I
agree with Van Til when he said that we are dealing with an inexhaustible God
and that what we have is an approximation to the fullness of truth as it exists
in God. We cannot understand God fully and totally because once we do, He is
not God anymore. He is a great God and there is an unimaginable amount of
knowledge of Him and relative to that, we all have our limited brains and time
on earth to know it all.
I
personally am thankful for the Bible, the Scriptures, to which God’s thumbmark
is manifested through It’s authority, perspicuity, necessity, and sufficiency
for His people, His children.
Week 2
Digest, Aug 29-Sept.5, 2022
Lanilane Ocbina
WCTS, ThM program
