Friday, March 09, 2007

Romans 1:20

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that [the ungodly] are without excuse."

Invisible?
Clearly seen?

At Bible class on Thursday, we spent the whole time (more than an hour) on half of a verse from John ("that which is born of the Spirit is spirit). We got into quite a discussion of spirit, soul, body, and flesh. One of the passages Pastor took us to was this section in Romans 1. But then I got distracted. How can something that is "clearly seen" be "invisible"?

Something to ponder....

1 comment:

  1. Okay, Aaron, I understand what you're saying. But I'm still a little stymied by the fact that "attributes" is a word inserted by the translator. When words are inserted "for the sake of clarity," I like to look at it without those additional words. "What is impossible to see is clearly seen." Or "the invisibility of God is visible." It's paradoxical, and I think there must be something to it that I'm not fathoming deeply enough.

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