Wednesday, March 11, 2015

It is a fearful thing …

… to fall into the hands of the living God: Beyond Eastrod: the journey of a Christian malgre lui: My confession: The Bible confuses and scares the hell out of me . . .

In What Can We Say About God, William A. Luijpen, O.S.A., says this:
When the believer calls, shouts or whispers the name "God," he expresses the mystery of his existence. Under certain conditions he discovers in his existence a "depth" whose "reality" cannot be indicated in "flat descriptive" terms functioning as particularizations of what in common parlance we call "something" or "somebody." In calling the name "God," the religious man doesn't intend to describe "something" or "somebody" …. The religious man calls, shouts, whispers the name "God!" He prays and sings, he shouts for joy and laments, he sorrows and curses.

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