His ideas might lead to a better social order, or help us avoid another war.
By not learning about theology, you will inevitably have the wrong ideas about God.Just because you don’t listen to/read theology, does not mean you won’t have ideas about God.“Nor will you be very safe if you go to sea without a map.”.“Neither will you get anywhere by looking at maps without going to sea.“.“…and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.”.“But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic…”.Basing your relationship on “God moments” leads to a vague and useless (but easy) religion.Our personal “God moments” don’t lead us anywhere greater than the moment.And secondly, if you want to get any further, you must use the map. They give us an idea of what God is like, but they are not God and they are not, in truth, “real.” Theology, though, gives us a much greater scope of the personality of God that we cannot get on our own.īut that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God-experiences compared with which any thrills or pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. You are not children: why should you be treated like children? Theology means ‘the science of God,’ and I think any man who wants to think about God at all would like to have the clearest and most accurate ideas about Him which are available.
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