Augustine seems to answer all the questions I didn't know I had. While reading Confessions, many times I have thought "I've never thought about that, but that makes so much sense." In Book IX Section 25, Augustine writes about how if we, as humans, were completely undistracted, disconnected from everything and focused on him, then we would hear from God, through God. We would not see God through "the tongue of the flesh, nor through the voice of an angel, nor through the sound of thunder, nor through the obscurity of a symbolic utterance." God would not need to use these things we love to speak to us, if we were to be unmoving then he would not need a mediator. How cool would it be for God to speak directly to us, without any sort of mediation??? This does not seem like that big of a deal, but it amazes me and sometimes confuses me how Augustine thinks of these things and knows how to put them into words.
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Awesome thoughts, Ollie. It truly is an amazing thought to think of direct communication with God-- with no physical means or even standard human means. To just know Him and be known by Him... What glorious thoughts.
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That is an amazing thing to think about. It makes me look forward to spending eternity in God's presence even more.
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