As I understand it, Hebrew prophetic experience is a perpetual conversation between a people and their God: Are You still with us? Why have You done this to us? etc.
Joshua Coffin goes through this process as an individual:
it is a blessing that the lowland fruit is found to be edible;
it means that He who fed Israel in the wilderness has also fed Coffin's lost son who therefore is still alive;
no, it is not a blessing;
it means only that it is possible to search the lowland in detail;
thus, God commands His servant Joshua to continue this search indefinitely through vines, thornbush and creepers;
no, it is crazy to think that God designed a planet just to punish me!
And so on. These reflections will continue until they are interrupted by a need for action.
Science is like a conversation of question and answer with the natural environment - but one that does yield definite answers.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But we see Joshua Coffin rationally examining and testing what he finds. THEN he interpreted what he thought those findings meant.
Ad astra! Sean
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