Somebody asked me during the session what I mean by the glory of God.

That is a very good question because I've used it, what, 100 times and haven't defined it,

and I'm really into clarity as far as it's possible and into definition.

I think most arguments are settled by definitions.

So let me try.

And I don't have it in my notes here.

I'll just tell you what I think.

One of the reasons is hard to define the glory of God is because there are realities

that can't be communicated through other mediums

than themselves very effectively.

Jonathan Edwards, who worked harder than anybody I know, to put

undescribable reality into words,

has a section in his essay on the Trinity where he,

you can just see him throwing up his hands and saying words words words

how inadequate these instruments are and so here's my replacement of one word with another set of ambiguous words

called the definition.

The glory of God is the beauty of his manifold perfections.

Now the word beauty needs defining, and how in the world are we going to do that?

Who can define the word beauty? What you do when you have a

word like beauty is point. I mean if you try to come up with words like symmetry and harmony and

balance and texture and you just, what is that, you know?

Is that working?

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