Ive wanted to write about trying to control God by our systematic explanations of doctrine that we use in our speech and in our writing. Because when we are trying to speak about God we should be equipped with the boundaries of what we are writing about, the boundaries from our understanding of the doctrines of grace. But this communication that we have from the words of scripture is really compared to a way of walking. In some sense doctrine is simply the back bone that gives us confidence that we can present something that is fresh that we have heard from God and we are able to express our full humanity as from our personal world view.
In this sense the scripture is really an instrument in which we find the genuine connection to the God -Man. As to God we find that His word never changes. He never acts toward us by reacting to us. But as the the Man we find someone who has an experience in this world that is far beyond our understanding. He is connected to His circumstances, creation, and to people in which the meta physical weight is as powerful as dynamite. We have been united to this Man in our salvation who has experienced pleasure, peace, joy and power that is an emanation of the understanding of who He is in its fullest. In our human experience He has experience that connection of the communication of all things that far surpasses our understanding of how we are connected to all things...those things of creation and our horizontal relationships. In this way we are only united to each other as we experience His value as He is connected to others. How can we describe this abundant life in theological terms without adding something of our own as if we can control it?
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