This came to me as I tried to answer a question relating epistemology to regeneration. My point was (and still is) that it's basically pointless to talk about our source of knowledge as regenerated beings, because:
- From the eternal (kingdom) perspective, we have direct revelation. The source of all Truth now indwells us.
- From the human perspective, we are essentially no different from other human beings (we could argue a lot about what I mean by that statement--I am very willing to discuss if you want).
Anyway, this is the illustration. I'd appreciate it if you physicists could correct it to a simple electrical engineer.
This was illustrated to me so clearly one time when my uncle--who was a physicist of no small stature--was talking with his son. His son asked him what the electrical resistance was between a cloud and the ground just before lightning struck. My uncle responded to my cousin with quite a bit of consternation--"That's a pointless question. At one point in time the resistance is virtually infinite and at the next instant the resistance is very large but definitely finite and calculable. The air between becomes ionized instantaneously." (my paraphrase--this happened decades ago). To me, this is a great picture of what happened in the spiritual domain when I was redeemed. My resistance to the truth went from infinite to 'large but calculable'. It's still large, but shrinking. (quoting myself from another discussion).
Of course, one corollary is that the scriptures have absolute, direct power in the kingdom domain. However, the power they have in the human domain is a combination of the intrinsic power of the written Word of God and our intrinsic ability to screw up our understanding and articulation therof.
Insights? Arguments?
Joe Moore
Edited by - joemoore on 01/02/2002 10:47:06 AM |