I was reading J I Packer Knowing God recently (rad book, everyone should read it) and came across an argument I found I couldn't make up my mind about...
In our approach to problems of Christian living; the question is, can we say, simply, honestly, not because we feel that as evangelicals we ought to, but because it is plain matter of fact, that we have known God, and that because we have known God the unpleasantness we have had, or the pleasantness we have not had, through being Christian does not matter to us? If we really knew God this is what we would be saying, and if we are not saying it, that is a sign that we need to face ourselves more sharply with the differnece between knowing God and merely knowing about him.
It's part of a greater argument about whether we know God and that we don't KNOW him through learning theology in a vacuum, but this part stands on it's own as well. Are we called for our suffering not to make a difference? Understanding that it is refining us, but it not essentially affecting our mentality? Is this the way to 'rejoice'?
Thoughts?
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