Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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BY HENRY PROCTOR, F. R. s. L., M. R. A. s.
ak ;;s;$¢r};u51eOD dwelleth in light unapproachable, whom
'Iii Ll; no man hath seen or can see." "No man
'ii if? can see God and live." Such are the
'ft 3? statements of the New Testament regard-
%'¥"¥"¥'R ing the Supreme God. Yet there are also
aflirmations in various parts of Holy Writ, which are the
direct contrary of these, as, "The pure in heart shall see
God," and Job says: "I have heard of thee by the hearing
of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee." And
again, "The throne of God and of the lamb shall be in
it: and his servants shall serve him, and they shall look
upon his face." No wonder the materialist, the man of
mortal mind, says that the Bible abounds in contradictions,
for so it must appear to him. But the Divine Wisdom
justifies itself, tho it may appear to be foolishness
to human reason. "For what man knoweth the things
of a man save the spirit of the man that is in him; even
so, the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of
God.
But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit."
"Things which eye saw not, nor ear heard, nor had entered
into heart of man," even the deep things of God-
THE DEEPS OF THE DIVINE NATURE,
which are inconceivable to the mortal mind of the animal
man, and can be known only by those who are partakers
of the Divine Nature, who
'I Cor. ii. 11-16.
"rossl-:ss THE MIND or cHa1s'r"'