Opus 2024-224: No Answer

Have you come across questions that are very hard to answer?  One that speaks to me as being a futile question is, “If you were the only one in the world would Jesus have died for you?”  My answer to that is “no”.  I’m not sure that’s the right answer.  I’m not sure there is an answer that we can come up with.  Another question I have is, “Why did God create us?”

Then there are the questions like, “Can God make a rock so heavy that He can’t lift it?”  Or how about, “Can God make a square circle?”  The problem with these has to do with logic and are not seeking a real answer.  There is some term in the study of logic which is used for this.  I know it exists but I can’t remember it.  My answer is that in our understanding of the universe and considering the limitations of the human mind the answer is, “No.”  If you consider that God also exists outside our ability to understand then He could if He wanted to but we still would not be able to understand it.

You may have your own questions.  Feel free to ask them.  Ask your friends. Ask your  professors.  Ask God.  Be prepared to get either no answer or a nonsense answer.

Also, be prepared to hear, “Because I said so.”  As anyone who has had children knows, that is a perfectly appropriate.

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