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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Isaiah 55, 8 and 9 are among the verses that seem to have taken on a life of their own

in Christian circles.

Quote, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways to clear

the Lord, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your

ways and my thoughts, your thoughts.

Well, Christians often cite these verses as meaning that God's thoughts and God's ways

are so transcendent, so inscrutable, we cannot know them.

This is, we are told, a reason to be comforted as Christians, especially when the circumstances

around us are confusing or painful.

Some would even use these verses to defend a kind of Christian anti-intellectualism.

After all, if God's unknowable, we should just have faith.

We don't need to study theology, but when having a child-like faith is confused with

having a purely emotive faith like this, there's no sense in stewarding our minds to the

knowledge and worship of God.

And unfortunately, this way of approaching God has even further devolved into this idea

that if God's unknowable, well, maybe we can't really know His moral will either, especially

when it comes to controversial behaviors or lifestyles.

Well, of course, it's true that God is omniscient.

We are not.

He not only knows vastly more than we can imagine or comprehend, he's the very source of

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