I was going to write a diddy on canonicity here today, but after a discussion I had at lunch yesterday and today I want to give you something to truly ponder for the weekend before church on Sunday. If you want to talk about the creation of the canon, call me up and we can go to lunch or something. Today I want to throw out a rather deep concept called the antrhopic nature of Scripture.
What this means is that God, as a transcendant being, had to communicate to us on our level. We can not reach up to investigate God and would not understand him even if we could. So God had to reach down or condescend to us in order to reveal himself to us.
Let’s ponder this for a second. God is not bound by space or time. He is not in need of language. He completely exists outside of our realm of sensory experience, yet he injected himself into space, time, and used human language to reveal himself to us. On top of this, the second person of the trinity, Jesus, took on human flesh. He was tempted. He loved. He hurt. He lived and died. Believe me, this was not an upgrade for the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace, the Lord of Lords, to become the solution for our sin. He had to come to us because there is no way for us to reach up to him.
So what are the implications? 1) Grace: God is truly gracious in revealing himself to us! 2) Mystery: Although we can know certain things about God because he has revealed himself to us, we are still very limited in our understanding. 3) Gratitude: We can praise God that He did not stay far from us. He is not the distant God of the deist. He is personal and gracious to reveal himself to us in a way that we can know him, although not perfectly. Thank You God!
