Human understanding is like a particle surrounding nothing spiraling out from its nothingness but retaining something of increasing capacity to understand.
God's understanding is infinity containing infinity that contains infinity.
God can only be understood within the human capacity to understand.
Although human beings can never achieve understanding of God's true nature, human capacity to understand is a projection of God's ability to understand.
Humans can only understand God in human terms.
It is not really surprising that scripture written millennia before today has had to be reinterpreted many times as human cultures arose then faded from existence.
That is the reason why sermons rely on pieces scripture from many sources to explain the pastor's intended message.
Scripture written millennia before today have been viewed from many different contexts from when the text was first written through the times leading to today.
The human spiral of understanding expands as today becomes tomorrow.
If God has been speaking to humanity since the time of Adam, how much of that side of the conversation with God has made it into scripture and how much has been obscured due the will of some human beings?
Gathering a message from different sources of scripture for a pastor's sermon is evidence that the message that God wishes us to receive does reach us over time.
It was there in the text despite the writer's inability to recognize it.
The further back in human time, the less any human knew.
The will of some human beings to obscure God's message fails over time, however, scripture written millennia before today can't truly be understood without knowing the context intended by the writer of the text that became scripture.
Scripture written centuries before today's era has a world context distinctly different from today's cultural biases.
Some aspects of the past are still with us and we could ask why is that?
What is God telling us today that we are not hearing clearly?
I see little evidence of Christians posing that question.
