Andrew Moody

(Writing about True Stuff and Made-Up Stuff)

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    Postcards from the Ineffable

    May 26, 2023 /

    What part does imagination play in your spiritual life? You might think it should have no place at all. We should be about truth. Many of us know people who cook up all kinds of funny ideas about God and his will for their lives using their imaginations—exactly the kind of thing that the Bible specifically denounces in places such as Ezekiel 13 and Jeremiah 23:16-17. The imagination (or heart) is a thoroughly unreliable source for theological knowledge. An Imaginative Book for Imaginative Hearts Even so, the Bible is full of imagination. When it describes God as building his house above the firmament, or coming down to judge, or smelling…

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