‘I know the truth’ or ‘I know God’
Even scarier to an agnostic is a group who say ‘We know the truth’ / ‘We know God’
To say I know God, reduces god to a god made in our image.
People who claim to know the truth want to wrap Jesus up in swaddling clothes or keep him pinned to a cross. It’s safer!
To claim you know the truth immediately prevents you from knowing any further truth.
Meister Eckhart says…
‘If thou lovest God as God, as spirit, as Person or as image that must all go. Love him as he is: a not-God, a non-spirit, a not-Person, a not-image.’ In short, whatever you say God is, you must also say God is not, and if you don’t you risk nothing less than idolatry’
‘I pray God to rid me of god’
‘The highest and loftiest thing that one can let go of is to let go of God for the sake of God’
‘God’s exit is her entrance’
And Mark Vernon says..
The strongest Bible-believing Christians are probably the ones building the great idols of our day