Upon This Rock (21): Robbing Christ of His Honor (13)
Don Doezema explores the limits of human comprehension regarding heavenly realities, drawing on Calvin's analogy of human inability to understand divine mysteries. Through exegesis of 1 Corinthians 2:9 and Revelation 21, he argues that Scripture necessarily uses earthly metaphors to describe transcendent truths about the new creation and the glorified church, since our finite minds can only grasp what is material and temporal.
Previous article in this series: September 15, 2015, p. 493. Who, in his right mind or even not quite so, would ever try to teach something of the beauty of a symphony by Beethoven, or a piano concerto of Mozart… to a donkey? Have you taken a moment to ponder that? Then think of this, from John Calvin: What must be "carefully attended to," he writes in his commentary on I Corinthians 1:20, is that "man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God...
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