Our language, at best, is language of analogy.

What we can say is what God is like.

An analogy is not an identity.

That's the crucial problem.

God is not a bright light,

but there is something that light suggests

that says something to me about God.

And so our language about God is built upon analogy.

I talked to a professor of philosophy last week.

He said, can you know anything about God from nature?

And I said, yes.

I said, God reveals Himself in nature

and not only does God reveal Himself in nature,

but everything in nature reveals something about God.

And this professor was horrified by that statement.

He said, that can't be.

And he said, show me something in nature

that will tell you something about God.

And we were standing in a kitchen and I grabbed a teetop.

And I said, this teetop tells you something about God.

And he says, that's absurd.

And he said, what else?

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