#knowledge of GOD

[tonreihe]

“God in Christ allows us to know the unknowable God, but God always remains unknowable (Barth prefers to speak of ‘being known’ by God, rather than us knowing God). Barth’s point is not that God is unknowable and hidden because of, say, his infinity or omnipresence. Instead God actively reveals himself to and hides himself from humanity so that we might know that God is God; the Lord is sovereign even over knowledge about himself.”

—Kenneth Oakes, Reading Karl Barth: A Companion to Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans (emphasis added)

[esprit-de-kyung]

“I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.”

‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭1‬:‭16‬-‭17‬ ‭NLT‬‬

[reformedontheweb]

"That there exists in the human minds and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to prevent any man from pretending ignorance, has endued all men with some idea of his Godhead, the memory of which he constantly renews and occasionally enlarges . . ."

John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion, trans. Henry Beveridge, Book 1:3:1.

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

Classic Reads for Foundation

[underground-hip-hop-affiliated]

“True Is Rare,

Fake Is Common.”

simply because the majority don’t have Knowledge of God (SELF).

[tabernacleheart]

Jesus does not content Himself with a place beside other teachers, saying, “I will give you light,” but affirms that the light is inseparable from His own person. “I am the light.” By this He means, as already observed, that it is by receiving Him as our life that we have light. But His words also mean that He imparts this light not by oral teaching, but by being what He is, and living as He does. Teaching by word and precept is well, when nothing better can be had; but it is the Word made flesh that commands the attention of all. This is a language universally intelligible. [Christ's Life,] the highest conceivable, on almost the lowest conceivable stage, and recorded in the simplest form, with indifference to all outward accompaniments attractive whether to the few or to the many, is set before us as the final and unalterable ideal of human life, amid all its continual and astonishing changes. It is by this life led here on earth He becomes our Light. It is by His faith maintained in the utmost of trial; His calmness and hopefulness amidst all that shrouds human life in darkness; His constant persuasion that God is in this world, present, loving, and working. It is by His habitual attitude towards this life, and towards the unseen, that we receive light to guide us. In His calmness we take refuge from our own dismay. In His hopefulness we refresh ourselves in every time of weariness. In His confidence our timorous anxieties are rebuked. Upon the darkest parts of our life there falls from Him some clear ray that brightens and directs. Thousands of His followers, in every age, have verified His words: “I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” And as the Teacher taught by living so must the scholar learn by living. Christ brings light by passing through all human experiences and situations, and “he that followeth” Him, not he that reads about Him, “shall have the light of life.” There are very few men in the world who can think to much purpose on truths so abstruse and complicated as the Divinity of Christ and the Atonement and Miracles; but there is no man so dull as not to see the difference between Christ’s life and His own. Few men may be able to explain satisfactorily the relation Christ holds to God on the one hand and to us on the other; but every man who knows Christ at all even as he knows his friend or his father, is conscious that a new light falls upon sin of all kinds, upon sins of appetite and sins of temper and sins of disposition, since Christ lived. It is in this light Christ would have us walk, and if we follow as He leads on, we shall never lack the light of life. We need not be seriously disturbed about the darkness that hangs round the horizon if light falls on our own path; we need not be disturbed by our ignorance of many Divine and human things, nor by our inability to answer many questions which may be put to us, and which indeed we naturally put to ourselves, so long only as we are sure we are living so as to please and satisfy Christ. If our life runs on the lines His life marked out, we shall certainly arrive where He now is, in the happiest and highest human condition.

William R. Nicoll

[godswordnkjv]

[2sfa]

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6

[tom4jc]

April 19, 2023 Promise Of God

[biblebloodhound]

Thanksgiving Day (Psalm 100)

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.

By Rochelle Blumenfeld Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.    Serve the Lord with gladness;    come into his presence with singing. Know that the Lord is God.    It is he who made us, and we are his;    we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving    and his courts with praise.    Give thanks to him; bless his name. For the Lord is good;    his…

[kripashankar744das]

A Thief Never Becomes Rich

Supreme God Kabir protects His devotees from all kinds of obstacles. The story of a Jaat farmer and his unpleasant encounter with a cunning thief is a strong testament to this fact. Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj narrates how God Kabir's profound spiritual teachings affected the two seemingly disparate lives, ensuring the welfare of His devotee and leading the thief to the realisation that wrongdoing only leads to ruin.

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[kdmiller55]

Our All-Knowing God

Growing in our knowledge of God can be difficult because it requires us to wrestle with complex and sometimes confusing issues. The God who created the entire universe ex nihilo (out of nothing) is neither simple nor simplistic. He cannot be easily explained or understood, and the complexity of His nature leaves fallen humanity perplexed and prone to create its own finite portrait of the…

[metawriter]

When you have the right information, knowledge becomes powerful - start here https://spiritseid.com/education

[judahmaccabees]

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(