Jason,
This is from my unpublished book "It Seems To Me":
What I am inferring above, is that the Bible has many apparent contradictions and confusions for a logical mind. Yet, it is only our language (English), small minds, and ignorance of Him, that does not allow us to accept God and the Bible, just as they are. There are truly no clear, complete descriptions of God. But, more than that, it is our language, our mental limitations, and our logi-cal minds, that are not equipped to deal with the apparent contradictions in the Bible and our so-called "religion".
Much in the Word of God, does not make human sense! It is not clear to me, but neither is it necessary for me to make sense of it all, and make it all clear. I am perfectly at peace with the non-clarity of God's Word and with the totality of our beliefs. The trouble is that it forces me to give up one of the very foundations of who I am as a human being, and to totally rely on some-thing that I do not understand. That is an affront to my logic; my psyche, as a human being!
Perhaps, this is part of my own personal, picking up my cross and following Him, each day. That is, I must deny myself (my personal logic/self-psyche) and pick up my cross and follow him each day. My self says that the whole thing is preposterous, and that fact is largely because my mind is logical. My logic is a detriment to following Christ. Jesus says that we must become as little children to enter the kingdom of God. And it occurs to me that little children do not have logical minds, therefore part of my personally becoming like a child, is throwing off the chains of my logical mind.
And, from another section of the book:
Another reason I felt directed to write this book is to reveal the purposeful obfuscations in the Word! The reason for these purposeful misdirections/confusions in the New Testament, are the same reason today, as was the reason for Jesus' speaking in Parables, during His earthly ministry. Had Jesus spoken the truth, in clarity from the very start of His earthly ministry, He would not have lived even the three years that He needed, to accomplish all that He, God and Holy Spirit decided that He/They needed to accomplish prior to His crucifixion!
Today, those two reasons become one; to give man a chance to deny Him! God gives man plenty of rope to hang Himself. He does not want robots for a family, He wants faith-filled lovers of Him/Them, and man is just dying to deny Him; so determined are men to become gods unto themselves!
The Trinity decided, before the foundations of the earth, that Jesus would fulfill all the Messi-anic prophesies of The Old Testament, before going to the cross, and He needed three years to accomplish all of the dozens of Old Testament Prophesies that God, through the Prophets, had promised the jews that their Messiah would do.
