Confession: I just wrote an entire book trying to explain and define God, but I actually know practically nothing about him.
I hope you will forgive me for it.
Of course, I’m in good company, as plenty before me have tried to do the same.
Add in the fact that each of us individually have all sort of made up our own ideas about God without really having much of a clue and likely shared them with others along the way.
“But wait a second, Steve,” you say, “there’s plenty of evidence out there telling us exactly what God is like.”
But God himself begs to differ:
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9, ESV)
In context, the “heavens” here refers to the celestial bodies way out in space (planets, stars, etc.) that people in Old Testament times would have observed (at least partially) as they gazed up into the night sky – in other words, the whole big universe.
So just how high is the universe? And how much can we even comprehend? Continue reading
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