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One reason I'm a huge proponent of the concept and language of mystery in the life of the Church today is because of the way that certainty and absolutes have been abused in the past and are still being abused in some circles. But beyond all my postmodern arguments and the smallness of our intellects compared to God...there's another reason a quest for certainty is sure to be disappointing: Ultimate Truth is not a thing...it's a Person. Truth IS God. Thus he is the subject of such wonder and glory and splendor and dignity and holiness that knowing him is to love him and worship him and delight in him and seek to please him with everything that we are. Those who are on a quest for certainty through the Bible are missing the point. Leaving out mystery in our search for God attempts to put God in a very small box, therefore making truth very small, very knowable. But God never says 'Ask, and Seek and Knock for objective, absolute, propositional truth'...he said, "I am the way, the truth and the life..." Coming to know God is a lifelong journey, the quest is a relationship...one that I hope will never end. Certainty has an end-point.