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God vs. Human Comparison - Caroline Tucker

Dark Night of the Soul is equally an intriguing and confusing text. It is probably confusing to me because I am not the best at initially understanding what is going on with no context. As I read, however, I was able to somewhat understand what is going on in this text. I was both intrigued but also dare I saw convicted. It was very enlightening and I look forward to thinking about the text and reading more of it. As I was reading, many sentences made me close the book and say “wow”, I am going to discuss one of those sentences. 

In book I chapter VII, St. John of the cross wrote “Thus they measure God by themselves and not themselves by God, acting quite contrarily to that which He Himself taught in the Gospel...” (18). I found this quote to be a great and convicting thought. I remember having multiple conversations in Sunday school discussing why God did something and how it does not make sense to us as humans, we always came back to the fact that God cannot be compared to us. We must compare ourselves to God. We cannot fathom the mind of God becuase we have a finite and constrained thought while God is not constrained at all and is infinite.  

P.s. I commented on Leanne’s and Jackson’s posts.

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  1. Leanne ElizabethApril 12, 2021 at 6:56 PM

    It is indeed very difficult to fully understand God, dare I say impossible. As you mentioned, He is infinite while we are finite, and while we have limits, He has none. It gets confusing the more you try to understand it.

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  2. Brooke HutchesonApril 12, 2021 at 7:13 PM

    It is ironic that we talked about this today in Philosophy class. Our human minds do not have the compacity to comprehend God since we are finite beings. I think that is a blessing, though. I think not knowing everything about God makes Christianity more interesting, and it gives surprises to look forward to in Heaven.

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  3. Haylee LyndApril 12, 2021 at 7:44 PM

    It is so easy to put God into a box. Both because we are finite and he is infinite but also because we sometimes just want him to follow our desires and wants. We can't wrap our heads around his nature because he is so much greater than us.

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