Great comments and I’ll be looking at your site.
Jeff

This is a great quote, thanks for posting it. I’ve been collecting similar quotes on Biblical paradox for about a year and posting them on my site as “Paradox Files.” So far, I’ve found several interesting affirmations from men like John Piper and Charles Spurgeon, plus a couple of helpful sermons on the topic by some good preachers. I agree with TC’s comment above – paradoxes help us stay grounded (and humbled) because they prove God is bigger and better than we can imagine. They constantly call us to back into balance.

To unbelievers, Biblical paradoxes are just contradictions, but God gives faith to His children, and they see right through the apparent contradictions and on into eternity where they are fixated on the eternal and infinite Truth of the God Who is beyond, yet reveals Himself to finite man.

There’s some helpful material about this on http://www.ex-atheist.com. The writer there says he was an atheist until he learned to appreciate paradoxes. Then he was suddenly enlightened about what he always THOUGHT were contradictions in Scripture.

Soli Deo Gloria!

Derek Ashton

Jeff

Let him be accursed.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. (Galations 1:6-9)