Sound it Out
April has left with my sister today from California. Please pray they have a fun & enjoyable trip.
I was sent this quote from a friend. The context is a discussion on the problem of evil, and more particularly the question "how can God send anyone to Hell?" and why traditional protestant (including Reformed) answers are so monumentally unsatisfying. Onwards:
"Here's a quotation about Job from C.S. Lewis's introduction to Essays Presented to Charles Williams that you might find interesting in the above connexion:
'[Williams] did not believe that God Himself wanted that frightened, indignant, and voluble creature [Job] to be annihilated; or even silenced. If it wanted to carry its hot complaints to the very throne, even that, he felt, would be a permitted absurdity. For was not that very much what Job had done? It was true, Williams added, that the Divine answer had taken the surprising form of inviting Job to study the hippopotamus and the crocodile. But Job's impatience had been approved. His apparent blasphemies had been accepted. The weight of the divine displeasure had been reserved for the "comforters," the self-appointed advocates on God's side, the people who tried to show that all was well-"the sort of people," he said, immeasurably dropping his lower jaw and fixing me with his eyes-"the sort of people who wrote books on the Problem of Pain.'"
| By Josiah Roe | 12:54 PM
Comments
Re: the Lewis quote, this is non-propositional and inadequate logically, but relationally it is truth. Monumentally unsatifying until you actually experience the apologia personally.
I'm still working on being okay with this.
Posted by: Noel at January 5, 2006 9:28 PM
Uh-Hullo!
I've always thought that Job's impatience and resulting "blasphemies" were definitely NOT approved, accepted, by God(although Job himself was). It's comforting to know that God accepts us even with our lame, or incomplete, understandings to the big questions of Life.
Posted by: Cameron at January 9, 2006 9:04 PM
