Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
This is one of the questions with which God meets the human mind, setting before it the divine mysteries displayed in the natural world. Even persons of the greatest mental power and the deepest scholarship cannot grasp or resolve them. The question is put not to draw out an answer but to direct attention to the profound hidden things of God. Its purpose is to teach the narrow bounds of human wisdom, for in the common surroundings of everyday life there are many things that finite beings cannot comprehend.
It discloses infinite power in the way God makes Himself known through nature and through divine revelation. That power is to be recognized as much in what He withholds as in what He lays open to limited understanding. Such mysteries are given to require faith. They keep human beings always seeking, always asking, always gaining knowledge, while an endless expanse still stretches beyond them.
This is one of the questions with which God meets the human mind, setting before it the divine mysteries displayed in the natural world. Even persons of the greatest mental power and the deepest scholarship cannot grasp or resolve them. The question is put not to draw out an answer but to direct attention to the profound hidden things of God. Its purpose is to teach the narrow bounds of human wisdom, for in the common surroundings of everyday life there are many things that finite beings cannot comprehend.
It discloses infinite power in the way God makes Himself known through nature and through divine revelation. That power is to be recognized as much in what He withholds as in what He lays open to limited understanding. Such mysteries are given to require faith. They keep human beings always seeking, always asking, always gaining knowledge, while an endless expanse still stretches beyond them.