Francis Chan’s “Crazy Love”
In his book, Crazy Love, author and pastor Francis Chan writes at pages 31-32:
“Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant god that would be! If my mind is the size of a soda can and God is the size of all the oceans, it would be stupid for me to say He is only the small amount of water I can scoop into my little can. God is so much bigger, so far beyond our time-encased, air/food/sleep-dependent lives.”
The frustrating thing about books like Chan’s is that they use the Bible itself to justify or validate its own representations. This is the literary equivalent of using a word to define itself. For me to be able to understand and appreciate the arguments presented by the Bible, a book that has transmogrified through millennia from original fragmented texts in ancient tongues (after thousands of years of unwritten oral tradition), those arguments must be independently verifiable either by process of logic or by independent resource testimony. And many authors like Chan focus on soft issues that have to be “experienced” like worship andadoration, and disregard more challenging issues like understanding.
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