A Different Way to Think
Theology is thinking about God, and our thinking is in words. But those words are appropriate to creatures, and he is the creator. So we use words by “analogy” as they are given to us in Scripture, knowing they can fit the one who is “immortal, invisible, God only wise” only to a degree.
There are different kinds of analogies we might employ. We who pass away and die have being but not as the One Who Is.
Someone recently asked me what I wrote my dissertation about. The answer is the famous modern German theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. Among the things he notably said is the following. We have a future and so does God, but in an analogous way. You might say that God owns the future and that He is coming to us from it, namely His kingdom. To us the future is all uncertainty and doom. Do I understand wholly what I have just said? Hardly, but it does have a meaning, and it points to something true. And as “resurrection people” it reflects back on what our walk and are hope are too.
Peace
+GRS
