History does not exist in a paradisical world where time has no meaning. Without birth, death, and all the violence in-between, there is nothing to record for the bliss of every moment is continual, without disturbance. Life in paradise is peaceful, joyful, without need or desire.
Truth is the judgment of the cross on the world, in this world we crucify God daily to our systems as we face our struggle to survive in a hostile world. When truth is silenced, the voice of God is crucified.
The Lord taught his disciples to pray with a model prayer. The prayer affirms the oneness of humanity under the love of God our Father. The prayer teaches us that God’s reality is apart from the daily experience of humanity.
In Scripture, it is not the language of law that communicates God, it is not the philosophers strenuous exercise in dialectics that communicates God - it is the prophets poetry, the wiseman’s story, the language of the song….
A mountain, lightning, fire, smoke, the earth shaking, and thick darkness - these are all indicative of the appearance of God (Ex 20:18; Ps 18). This display of earth shaking powers was present from Moses to Jesus’ death. However, this physical display is not God, as Elijah will be told. The voice of God speaks in the soul like the shearing of silence and calls all unto his self.
