“What happens when you try to put eternity into a human life? The same thing as when you try to put the Pacific Ocean into a thimble, only worse” (Writers to Read, p. 88).
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Theology That Bites Back
Theology That Bites Back
This metaphor works and fails. God is bigger than we can imagine, certainly. Space is his idea, not his natural habitat. On the other hand he fills every bit of it in all his fullness. The whole Pacific actually is in the thimble, not just a part. And all this is somehow extra-true in his children and extra-extra true in Jesus.
Yet He walked in that garden like He lived there.