Theological Doubt
Before I get to any of my planned posts, I want to share something a personal journal entry from last night.
My doubt is theological. It’s not that I believe it is not possible for there to be a God, or that the very idea of a transcendent something is utterly ridiculous. It is more rooted in the conviction that the finite cannot grasp the infinite. If there is a God, we cannot see it, deduce it, or say anything meaningful about it. If there is an infinite source of grace that seeks to grasp us, it can do so only by its own initiative. There is no way for us to know whether (to say nothing of content) there are conditions for us to meet in order to receive it.
The question that remains open for me is, how would we even know if we were grasped by this “grace”, this experience of the ultimate? Or more specifically, that the source of such experiences is “divine”? Or is it even for us to know the source of such experiences?
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