Yesterday I had a conversation with a really good friend of mine. Through this conversation I concluded that, just as God is, in Anselm's terms, a greater Being than which none can be conceived, His love is that of which a greater love cannot be conceived. In allowing for His full sovereignty, and our full freedom - Christianity is the religion of paradoxes - we also allow for the greatest, fullest love that could possibly exist.
I never want to live a religion of terminologies. It's not pride that makes me want to say that I don't belong to any particular denomination or named ideology. Rather, I don't want to be locked in by a lens that humanity has developed to boost our limited understanding.
I was talking last Sunday with a man who is like a second father to me. I think he is one of the great theologians of this age. :) But he said something I really liked, so I decided to quote him on it:
"Good philosophy doesn't require an undue amount of intelligence, but a good amount of honesty." ~ Kwong Tessalee
...about who we are, who God is...how much we can actually wrap our minds around. I love how he said he likes to remember that really he is like a very small dog looking up, wide-eyed, in wonder and puzzlement at something very, very big.
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