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WHAT DOES mortal man really know that he wants to debate the creation account of God as recorded in the Bible? An educated man claims that he is knowledgeable yet he knows very little.
O man, your inability to tell when you will die, what will cause your death, where you will die and how you will die should prompt you to appreciate the fact that you are but a finite being unable to answer many of life’s questions.
O proud children of man, your shallow mindedness must humble you to trust in God, a Supreme Being and accept His Word.
Truth is: man is man and God is God. God has no beginning and end, but man has. O man of dust, how can you understand God and all His doings?
God declares to man, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9, ESV).
It is also written that, “… that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men’s wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men’s might” (1 Corinthians 1:25,Weymouth New Testament).
God is a Spirit and operates from the spirit realm, a territory an unregenerate, depraved mind cannot discern. The things of God are therefore better understood spiritually.
Yet many a man wants to study and understand God the same way he studies in school. But man ought to know that God cannot be studied and understood like Mathematics or Physics. To understand the things of God, one needs the guidance of the Spirit of God.
“…no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God… the natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:11-14, ESV).
So, now, what must the natural (unregenerate) man do to receive the Spirit of God so he can understand the things of God? The first step is not to read or listen to biblical teachings and understand God.
The other is not to read or listen to biblical teachings to see God. The natural man likes to understand or see before he can believe.
However, a natural person seeking to understand the things of God by the Spirit of God must first hear the Good News or study the Scriptures and believe in Jesus Christ.
By James Quansah
