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January 05, 2005

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Michael Novak rocks

God is God.

God is our Judge.

We are not His judge.

The question is not, "Does God measure up to our (liberal, compassionate, self-deceived) standards?" The question is, "Will we learn — in silence and in awe at the far-beyond-human power of nature — how great, on a far different scale from ours, is God's love?"

It would be the greatest and most obscene of illusions for a man, any man, to imagine that he has greater love for a child mangled in the oily, dark waters of the recent tsunami than the Creator of that child has. It would be like Ivan Karamazov being unable to forgive God so long as one single child anywhere went to bed at night crying in loneliness and in pain. Who is Karamazov to think that his own love for that child — a purely abstract, speculative, hard-case, counterexample love — is greater than that of the child's Creator?

Yes. There's more. You should read the whole thing. I'd paste it all here, but I'd probably run afoul of copyright laws if I did so...

Posted by Nathan at 07:55 AM | Comments (2)
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What a ridiculous bunch of drivel. I am a Christian and I find Novaks statement filled with so many logical inconsistencies to make it laughable.

I actually feel sorry for him.

Posted by: DC at January 12, 2005 07:52 AM

...but I'm a Christian and pretty much agree with him. So your being a Christian really doesn't give you any additional credibility in and of itself.
Care to point out any of the inconsistencies? Or is this a "Sen. Reid" criticism, perfect in its vagueness and ambiguity?

Since you didn't actually explain what part(s) you had difficulties with, I'm left to guess. But let me just say that I've been studying the Bible for a number of years, and read a good deal of theology regarding the Bible and Christianity, and nothing Mr. Novak says disagrees with what's in there. Morever, there's nothing that obviously contradicts the important points of St Augustine, Martin Luther, C.S. Lewis, and actually provides a plausible answer for some of what we see in the world about belief and unbelief. That's a good start for a working hypothesis.

If you have a specific logical objection, describe it. I'll see if I can help you. If you only come to nitpick and condescend, you are on your own.

Posted by: Nathan at January 12, 2005 08:26 AM
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