Since reasoning, or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words, and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.
John Stuart Mill
The idea of a God we infer from our experimental dependence on something superior to ourselves in wisdom, power and goodness, which we call God; our senses discover to us the works of God which we call nature, and which is a manifest demonstration of his invisible essence. Thus it is from the works of nature that we deduce the knowledge of a God, and not because we have, or can have any immediate knowledge of, or revelation from him.
Ethan Allen
(St Kevin’s Monastery / Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland / Julie Cook / 2015)
Limitation collides with the Limitless
Try as it must, it cannot describe that which is beyond description.
The human mind labors to find the words…
even just one word…
but it fails.
An Entity that is without time, without form, without definition, without words…
Efforts are made to contain, to explain and to chain…
To detect, to dissect as well as inspect
Yet to do so has proven impossible.
Is IT greater than?
Of course IT is…
Without exception…
Yet…
The ego must see, must touch, must measure….
in order to claim, to believe and to state that something is indeed real.
The masses are left to merely inject, project, and to infer…
their own words…
their own thoughts…
their own meanings…
as well as
their own feelings…
Making IT forever less than…
less than IT should ever be…
“Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all.
1 Chronicles 29:11
AMEN!
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That was pure awesome.
thank you Lisa–that means a great deal–blessings for a beautiful new week
Pure awesome. Nice Lisa.
God is indeed a mystery beyond our understanding but we constantly try to put God in a box. Blessings on your week Julie!
Amen Lynda—A very happy and warm New Years to you!!
Another wonderful post my friend. And from the comments others have been writing to these of late, I’m not to only one who is amazed by their content. Love and hugs, N š ā¤
Nice post! We can never figure God out…nor does He fit inside a box. I just love this about Him! thank you for sharing…