Monday, February 27, 2023

 The Psalmist teaches that God cursed all men, allowing them to walk on the path of destruction. The creation is a picturesque display of God's attributes and His superior performance. Language was communicated to man in a way that he would be able to understand and glorify God. Man was not capable of instantly comprehending all of God's language, which is why He describes Himself and His works in a way that is easier for us to understand.Because God has perfect understanding of all things, He does not experience uncertainty. God is the only intelligent being who thinks, desires, and acts in perfect harmony. We live in mystery because we are not all-knowing, eternal, or all-powerful. Our fundamental uncertainty demonstrates that God has limited our intellectual ability by limiting our familiar language. Since God can accurately explain all the intricate details from His eternal perspective, then we who are limited in our language are completely dependent upon God. The key question is whether we can know enough to sufficiently understand God and ourselves.If God has described the continuous creation in all of its detail, then He does not experience uncertainty. God is the only one who identifies Himself as He is; we vicariously experience problems that result from our finitude, sinfulness, and curse. We struggle to adequately describe complex reality, like God does; our frustration with all opposition is a result of our uncertainty, due to our inability to comprehend the unclear reasons about ourselves and our circumstances. To know God and ourselves like God knows us, we must not have any limitations. God's language is detailed and comprehensive enough to accurately describe the logical reasons for all of reality. Since God created us to depend on Him, He needed to communicate His will to us so that we could be appropriately rewarded for our growing dependence. However, since God is free from the control of all things, we cannot be truly free ourselves since we are limited in our knowledge and language.If God made us to rule wisely over the earth but issued us limits under His control, how can we be successful in ruling? If God has given us the ability to rule over the earth wisely, but has also placed limits on our power under His control, how can we be successful in ruling? If God governs with unlimited power, then how can He appropriately reward us if our power is intentionally limited? God has given us a glimpse of His extensive language to allow us unlimited freedom, just as He is free. God has written down the outline so that we can identify our desires and express them.God revealed himself through the law, covenants, comprehensive statutes, curses, eternal decrees and promises. His dynamic language is the pronouncements of the victorious king. God has provided us with the ability to quell the formidable opposition of sin, the curse and our own limits.All reality is based on God's application of His law. Without law, nothing can be worthy or offensive. A lawless creation would be without personality. Since we cannot know as God knows, we subsequently live with mystery. God describes mystery by administering the law. God fashioned us to be free like He is free. We fail to be law keepers because we imperfectly understand good as God is righteous. Has God assigned us with destructive limitations to force us to depend upon Him? If all things are organically related to each other by law, then how can God be justified if we fail because we do not have comprehensive knowledge to be good as God? It is a fact that God always interacts with us in a way that is completely unified. This is because He always behaves in accordance with the laws that govern relationships. Therefore, it is only logical that God would eliminate any opposition, since He cannot go against His own nature. He must align His own desires with our sincere desires, so that we can be free as He is free. This is why God interacts with us through eternal pronouncements of law, covenants, curses, statutes, etc.

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