| Shepherd's Heart World-Wide Ministries |
3/9/2010
How God Relates Inversely
by
Soren Kierkegaard
| The law for God's nearness and remoteness is as follows: The more the outward externals, the appearances, indicate that God cannot possibly be present here, the closer he is. The opposite is also true: the more the outward externals, the appearances, indicate that God is very near, the farther away he is. Consider the first case, and think especially of Christ. Whenever it appeared that this man could not possibly be the God-man, then people even refused to recognize him as a man. But it was then that God's actuality was most present. Now consider the law for God's remoteness (and the history of this is the history of Christendom). It is as follows: Everything that strengthens the appearance of God being present (in the wordly sense)distances God. |