Can Reason Run With Horses?

“The use of the phrase ‘if words have meaning’ is very important here. It is ironic that people can hold reason in very high esteem adn say that it is competent to investigate the depths of the wisdom and knowledge of God, as well as the nature of time and eternity, and yet when it comes to reason’s legitimate job — determining what the words are actually saying — then such reason falls to the ground. As the prophet says somewhere, if a man can’t run with men, how will he compete with horses? If human reason can’t even diagram the above sentence — ‘He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world’ — then how can it hope to reconcile divine sovereignty and human ‘sovereignty’?” (“Foundations of Exhaustive Knowledge” in Bound Only Once, pp. 150-151).