http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/week-1-media/ Asking questions Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:24:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/week-1-media/#comment-2 Carol Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:39:07 +0000 http://danwarnke.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-2 Love your statement that: 'some things are so true that if you try and talk about them in very factual language it just doesn’t seem to work. It ruins it. It’s like some things are so true only poetry can capture them.' I think the nature of God, though empathetic to all our human experiences and earthliness, is also ethereal in its divine qualilties and so ungraspable for us to limit to 'factual language'. Its not a matter of God being so out of reach or spiritual that we couldnt get him right, but rather that He is so substantial that we cant fit Him all into plain linear language. Creatively praising God in a spectrum of forms will surely hint towards a truer expression of who God is. Love your statement that: ’some things are so true that if you try and talk about them in very factual language it just doesn’t seem to work. It ruins it. It’s like some things are so true only poetry can capture them.’
I think the nature of God, though empathetic to all our human experiences and earthliness, is also ethereal in its divine qualilties and so ungraspable for us to limit to ‘factual language’. Its not a matter of God being so out of reach or spiritual that we couldnt get him right, but rather that He is so substantial that we cant fit Him all into plain linear language. Creatively praising God in a spectrum of forms will surely hint towards a truer expression of who God is.

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