A passing glance at the business page in the Boston Globe recently mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect, and piqued my curiosity. I looked it up in Wikipedia and came up with this definition: “The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge.”
Hmmm, I thought-- I know people like that in my field. Wait a minute, was my second thought-- I hope I’m not one of them.
We Christian would-be thinkers deal with mystery at the end of every avenue we pursue. God is beyond comprehension, and yet reveals himself as a loving Father. How? Why? Want me to explain? If I can’t, there are a thousand amateur theologians down the block that have all the answers…
What is going to happen to the billions (with a “b”) that have never once heard the name Jesus Christ? Do you believe no one is saved, or can come to the Father except through Jesus? I do. I do believe. Will they (the billions) all be lost? Ask the guy with the latest prophesy book. You will never lack an opinion, loudly voiced.
I believe in revelation- the communication of truth from God to seeking hearts. I am a seeker after God. I believe God will reach the heart and mind of those who diligently seek him. (Hebrews 11:6) But truth is not democratically decided- truth IS. Is a PERSON, ultimately. It dawns that God loves...ME! (YOU!!) God cares! There is a simplicity of faith beyond the complexities of our formulaic understandings of truth. There is a Reality of covenant with God. I cherish the doctrines I have been taught, have learned- and believe they have opened the way to God. I can’t explain them. I don’t know how or why John 3:16 is true, or why Jesus loved me enough to come and die for me.
I am persuaded that God is good. I truly believe God loves you and me.
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I ask why the all-powerful father would create BILLIONS of souls to send to hell? I ask why the tortured soul, who suvived Nazi concentration camps and loved God and His Torah all their life, would be sent to burn in hell for all eternity, screaming out amid worse horror than the Nazis inflicted.
Don't answer right away. Give it some thought.
Are we painting a picture of God of which He would approve? Why would anyone turn to this God who tortures poor people through all eternity?
I love God and His Christ, in case you were wondering. I just don't buy into the 'lies of my forefathers' and 'the doctrines of men.' God teaches us to come to him as little children, that is without doctrine, open to the pure lessons to be found in the The Word, taught by the Spirit of Jesus with love.
Of course there are lessons to be learned from teachers when they are teaching the Scripture instead of doctrines of men.
I don't believe that the 'Old' Testament is null and void. I don't believe you can pick and choose which Scriptures are valid and which are not. I believe EVERY word in The Word. I believe God is a god of love in the whole Bible, not just in the Renewed Covenant. If anything in the Bible is not acceptable to someone, it is becuse they lack understanding... not because there is an error or an outdated thing in the Bible. The Word (Truth) is to be understood with the Spirit and sometimes people try to understand it with their intellect alone.
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