{"id":91311,"date":"2025-10-16T15:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=91311"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T20:14:28","slug":"the-paradoxes-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-paradoxes-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Paradoxes of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tby Floyd Chappalear<br \/>\nvia\u00a0<em>Sentry Magazine<\/em>, Vol. 18 No. 1, 31 March 1992\n<p>A paradox is that which seems contradictory in fact or experience; hence, unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p>There are some profound paradoxes associated with God. For instance,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God is sovereign, yet man has free will.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus was human, while remaining Deity.<\/li>\n<li>Man is saved only by faith, yet must work out his own salvation with fear and trembling.<\/li>\n<li>God requires his people to be sinless, although He accepts them despite their imperfection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sectarian mind can accept only one side of each of the equations. It is this sectarian mindset that leads to religious division. That is true now; it was true 2,000 years ago. The mind of faith, however, accepts all that God says on any subject and proceeds accordingly. He will not try to get God&#8217;s paradoxes to fit man&#8217;s limited knowledge and experience. Indeed, he freely accepts that there are deep things of God which belong only to Him and will not reject God merely because of his refusal to accept one of God&#8217;s paradoxes.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the paradoxes of God, visit, call, or write us.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Floyd Chappalear via\u00a0Sentry Magazine, Vol. 18 No. 1, 31 March 1992 A paradox is that which seems contradictory in fact or experience; hence, unbelievable. There are some profound paradoxes associated with God. For instance, God is sovereign, yet man has free will. Jesus was human, while remaining Deity. Man is saved only by faith,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1868],"class_list":["post-91311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-paradoxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44967,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/seven-paradoxes-of-the-cross\/","url_meta":{"origin":91311,"position":0},"title":"Seven Paradoxes of the Cross","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jonathan Perz Spreading the Gospel","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":61603,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-god-seen-in-nothing\/","url_meta":{"origin":91311,"position":1},"title":"The God Seen in Nothing","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 28, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"by Matthew W. 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Hamilton Download Audio Text: Isaiah 55:6-11 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Have you noticed the Bible contains one message, but that message causes conflicting responses \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One group sees the gospel as foolishness, while the other sees it as the power of God - I Corinthians 1:18; Romans 1:16 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The difference is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42812,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/bible-paradoxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":91311,"position":4},"title":"Bible Paradoxes","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Author Unknown A paradox is a tenet contrary to received opinion; seemingly contrary to common sense but is actually true. 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