Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

I just had a great meeting with someone who is inspecting or investigating what Christianity is all about. I love meeting with people who have genuine questions. I see the same themes everytime I meet with someone who is trying to find their way back to God. They have questions that need to be legitimized. Jesus wasn't afraid of questions. In fact, he often answered questions with questions.

I have lots of unanswered questions. I try to start from a position of humility. I don't have all the answers! I don't have everything figured out yet. And I never will. Isaiah 55:8 is my theological starting point. It's my a priori. Our best thoughts are 12.3 billion light-years removed from God. And I love I Corinthians 8:2. The more you know the more you know how much you don't know. That is usually where I start. I try to level the playing field.

Here is how I try to explain our knowledge. God knows everything about everything. We know so little about so little. The most brilliant and brightest minds among us fall 12.3 billion light-years short of God on his hypothetical worst day! We see one degree of truth. God sees three hundred and sixty degrees. He sees all the way around everything. And don't think in two-dimension terms. Imagine an earthlike sphere. And imagine the situation or person or idea in question is at the epicenter--the core of the earth. Omniscience is the sphere. God sees all the way around it--every angle. We see one angle, but it's not just one degree out of three hundred and sixty-degrees. It is much less than that because truth is latitudinal and longitudinal. We see life through a peephole or porthole.