6/29/2007

Darkened Counsel

Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? -Job 38:2

Who hasn't received counsel from someone who just doesn't know what they're talking about?  This is such a stern rebuke to Job when God tells him he is without knowledge.  I am without knowledge.  You are without knowledge.  Only God truly has knowledge.  We can come up with many theories, hypotheses, and theologies, but in the end we live in a world full of mysteries.  How did God create the Universe?  Why did he choose me?  Why does he allow violence?  Why did he make a universe that he knew would be fallen and would require the death of his son (himself)?  Go read a couple hundred commentaries and philosophers' writings on these questions, and in the end, all you'll know is that we're all without knowledge.

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