Our Limited Knowledge

A woman who had recently returned from a trip to Europe was asked if she had seen the Rhine in Germany. “Oh, yes,” she gushed, “and the view from the top was magnificent!” In the same manner, some Christians claim to know more than they actually do or even more than it is possible for a believer to know, especially about heaven and the life to come. They fail to recognize how imperfect our knowledge is in this life, even of revealed truth. Then they wonder at the rejection of Christianity by so many thoughtful people who try to arrive at the truth of God by their unaided intellect and hence fail miserably to discover a Christ who is so far beyond their mind’s grasp.