Today, as modern people, we understand, internal combustion engines, wireless communication, earthquakes, tornadoes, electricity, eclipses of the sun and moon, gravity, the workings of the human body, and a wealth of other things that to medieval people were horrific and mystifying. What medieval man feared and cowered from, we take for granted, and sometimes stand on the brink of boredom.
However, no matter how much modern people understand, there are things that still mystify us just as much as the things we now take for granted, mystified medieval people. What we tend to forget is that just as we understand things that mystified medieval people, God understands things that still mystify us. God knows all and the amount of our knowledge that exceeds that of medieval people is less that the head of pin compared to the knowledge of God, and that is a poor comparison. God and His knowledge are unfathomable.
Put in context, God thinks no more of eternal life, creating life, affixing the heavens in place, ordering the universe, passing through walls, stopping the sun, or rising from the dead, as we do electricity and those myriad of things that medieval people found so baffling. So where do we so called modern people get off thinking that just because something is baffling and beyond our comprehension, it is impossible? God does the impossible every day, just as in the eyes of medieval people the things we do daily would seem impossible.
However, no matter how much modern people understand, there are things that still mystify us just as much as the things we now take for granted, mystified medieval people. What we tend to forget is that just as we understand things that mystified medieval people, God understands things that still mystify us. God knows all and the amount of our knowledge that exceeds that of medieval people is less that the head of pin compared to the knowledge of God, and that is a poor comparison. God and His knowledge are unfathomable.
Put in context, God thinks no more of eternal life, creating life, affixing the heavens in place, ordering the universe, passing through walls, stopping the sun, or rising from the dead, as we do electricity and those myriad of things that medieval people found so baffling. So where do we so called modern people get off thinking that just because something is baffling and beyond our comprehension, it is impossible? God does the impossible every day, just as in the eyes of medieval people the things we do daily would seem impossible.