Deep and Wide!
Hello Bill. You are very correct about this not being an easy thing to grasp and we are mere humans... Able to invent light bulbs/automobiles/telephones, and many other things, but our brains are tiny in comparison to The Lord God Almighty--Maker of Heaven and Earth.
As good as those Authors/Preachers/Theology Profs. are/were that I mentioned before ( and don't forget to read some C.H. Spurgeon and some John Bunyan along with Berkof) the BEST thing to read and make our Statements of Faith from are the very Words of God that we have in our Bibles !
There are some rich and deep truths found in the first chapter in The Epistle to the Ephesians... Hope everyone will turn over there and read with an open heart and mind. This portion of scripture certainly makes John 17 more understandable. Starting at chapter 1, verse 3 we read on to v.4:
"According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved."
... go ahead and read the rest of the chapter folks. This is a great and glorious thing! The Creator of Adam and Eve, Who put the stars in the sky and named them, and gives us water and oxygen, and numbers the very hairs on our head...God Almighty is in control and He knows what He is doing ! This should warm our hearts and comfort us. If we are Christians, it is because of The Lord...NOT ourselves !
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