I'm loving our weekly Bring Your Own Brain Bible Study. We have been looking at the upcoming lectionary texts. Last night we read Isaiah 40:28
The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of
the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his
understanding is unsearchable.
To which Bryan, the graduate student in statistics, added that a numbers set of say, 5 things, is searchable and you can sort it. Same with a set of say, 200 items; but an infinite set is unsearchable and unknowable. So God is unsearchable. To which Richard added "Yeah, you can't exactly Google God". Richard is new to the faith (as in a month or so) and is blogging about it and his experience of Bible Study and HFASS here. Sometimes I think we can't really see the Christian faith until it is viewed through the eyes of someone who is seeing it for the first time.
Great insight on God's "unsearchability." I'll be quoting you (and Bryan) tomorrow morning.
Great to meet you and hear your reading at Church of the Beloved in Seattle, by the way. I'll be in touch.
Posted by: Christopher Boyer | February 07, 2009 at 02:58 PM
I just heard the term emergent(ing) Church. So far as I puruse the web what I read gives me little to go on regarding what are the teachings of this new style of church. What are folks teaching? Who is Jesus? What must I do to be saved?
Posted by: PattyDaddy | April 09, 2009 at 09:36 PM
I just read your post about being at Luther. Yeah. Sorry about that. I went to Luther... and I would have just graduated by the time you were on campus. Not GLBT my self, but spent much of my time at Luther being discriminated against because people thought that I was, or because I sympathized. Weird, seriously messed up, hurtful, place that does not represent the best of the ELCA nor should be considered our flagship seminary... so says a "proud" grad.
Posted by: PastorSara | April 14, 2009 at 02:25 PM