We can never get beyond our humanness.

And the only language we have is finite language.

So does that mean we can never get beyond ourselves?

We find in the Bible what we call anthropomorphic language.

What is anthropology?

It's the science of man, the Greek word for man, Anthropos. The Greek word

for form is morphos. And so anthropomorphic simply means something that is in the form of man.

If I say to you that the cattle on a thousand hills are gods, do you take that literally?

Does that mean when the Bible says that the cattle on a thousand hills are gods. Do you take that literally? Does that mean when the Bible says that the cattle on a thousand hills are gods, that God

is a great big rancher in the sky?

So many head of livestock?

You know that's not what it means.

What does it mean?

It calls attention to God's ownership, doesn't it?

But we don't take it literally because we recognize in that very concrete image that we are

involved with anthropomorphic language.

But what about when we speak about the omnipotence of God or the

infinity of God or any of those terms that are very abstract and heavy theological terms,

have we moved beyond anthropomorphic language?

No. Not at all.

We have become more abstract.

We have become more technical.

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