like a fire

I was reading something today and was really put into a new thought about faith and answers. Here is a quote from Richard Rohr:

“any religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of “faith”! How strange that the very word “faith” has come to mean its exact opposite.

People who have really met the Holy are always humble. It’s the people who don’t know who usually pretend that they do. People who’ve had any genuine spiritual experience always know they don’t know. They are utterly humbled before mystery. They are in awe before the abyss of it all, in wonder at eternity and depth, and a Love, which is incomprehensible to the mind. It is a litmus test for authentic God experience, and is — quite sadly — absent from much of our religious conversation today.”

Wow! What does that say about all the arguments about absolute truth? I don’t really think that everyone who insists on knowing things absolutely is arrogant, but I have met a lot of people who seem to put their faith in their absolute knowledge more than our creator.

ht: God’s Politics