"God is spirit", and to Him magnitude and distance have no meaning. To us they are useful as analogies and illustrations, so God refers to them constantly when speaking down to our limited understanding. The words of God as found in Isaiah, ”Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity,” give a distinct impression of altitude, but that is because we who dwell in a world of matter, space, and time tend to think in material terms and can grasp abstract ideas only when they are identified in some way with material things. In its struggle to free itself from the tyranny of the natural world, the human heart must learn to translate upward the language the Spirit uses to instruct us.”
Worship in Spirit and truth, is not reducing him to human reason , but in us seeing we are elevated above with new mind 1 Corinthians 2.
Early ecclesia was exchanged for philosophy as an end in it self, was a huge struggle the once spirit driven body was reduced to human mediums and replacing by gnosis an exchange from revelation to mere human reason, they mixed them, a struggle ever since. Coming Home! Is a goal here.
- A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of The Holy
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