God has no limitations
It is a self-evident fact that if God is the creator and sustainer of life, greater than all the things we see in heaven and earth, then his wisdom and power are also without limitations. This is particularly evident in comparison with man, whose world view is limited by his weak and mortal existence. Even the various sciences are but the exploration and attempted explanation of the things that are made. In this regards, the use of scientific knowledge is simply the use of the existing laws of nature for man’s benefit or selected outcomes, nothing more. Science creates nothing new, it only utilizes things and forces that already exist. This is not so with God.
It was the angel Gabriel who said the following to Mary, the mother of Jesus –
Luke.1:37. ‘For with God, nothing is impossible’
This is what Job declared some fifteen hundred years before, when towards the end of his trials, God speaks to him. God speaks of his works in the natural world, and challenges Job to understand both the wisdom and power of God in these things. At the end of the day and in his final conclusions, Job comes to understand God and says –
Job.42:2. I know that You can do everything. And that no purpose of Yours’ can be withheld from You.
The prophets of Israel said much the same –
Isaiah.40:28. Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah.45:18. For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is no other.
A quick review of the things covered in Chapters 2 and 4 will supply the missing information here. There is no need to re-state what we have found. These chapters show that God must be and is the source of all true wisdom and in comparison all that man can know is limited by what his existence and senses can allow him to perceive or learn. The invisible things of God cannot be seen, as He is greater than the heaven and the earth, and therefore beyond our ability to naturally perceive.
This of course, introduces us to another very important teaching of the Bible, which is Faith. This is a subject that is mostly misunderstood, so we will leave it for a particular focus later on in chapter 9. Suffice is to say now that Faith is more than simply believing in God’s existence. It involves a few important parts, two of which are;
1. Understanding and believing what God says, and
2. Therefore being able to see God and the world in a totally different way.
It is a self-evident fact that if God is the creator and sustainer of life, greater than all the things we see in heaven and earth, then his wisdom and power are also without limitations. This is particularly evident in comparison with man, whose world view is limited by his weak and mortal existence. Even the various sciences are but the exploration and attempted explanation of the things that are made. In this regards, the use of scientific knowledge is simply the use of the existing laws of nature for man’s benefit or selected outcomes, nothing more. Science creates nothing new, it only utilizes things and forces that already exist. This is not so with God.
It was the angel Gabriel who said the following to Mary, the mother of Jesus –
Luke.1:37. ‘For with God, nothing is impossible’
This is what Job declared some fifteen hundred years before, when towards the end of his trials, God speaks to him. God speaks of his works in the natural world, and challenges Job to understand both the wisdom and power of God in these things. At the end of the day and in his final conclusions, Job comes to understand God and says –
Job.42:2. I know that You can do everything. And that no purpose of Yours’ can be withheld from You.
The prophets of Israel said much the same –
Isaiah.40:28. Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, The Creator of the ends of the earth, Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah.45:18. For thus says the LORD, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD, and there is no other.
A quick review of the things covered in Chapters 2 and 4 will supply the missing information here. There is no need to re-state what we have found. These chapters show that God must be and is the source of all true wisdom and in comparison all that man can know is limited by what his existence and senses can allow him to perceive or learn. The invisible things of God cannot be seen, as He is greater than the heaven and the earth, and therefore beyond our ability to naturally perceive.
This of course, introduces us to another very important teaching of the Bible, which is Faith. This is a subject that is mostly misunderstood, so we will leave it for a particular focus later on in chapter 9. Suffice is to say now that Faith is more than simply believing in God’s existence. It involves a few important parts, two of which are;
1. Understanding and believing what God says, and
2. Therefore being able to see God and the world in a totally different way.
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