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“it rejoices in the requirements and qualities of saving knowledge, such as (a) that it is experiential, not derived by hearing alone, or the reading of books, or the revelation of another, intruding into things which it has not seen (Col. 2:18), but by the very sense of experience, and as it were, by sight (Ps. 34:8; 1 Peter 2:3), that is, in knowledge and all discernment (Phil. 1:9).”
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knowledge of God that must be cared for, it does not rest in some sort of common knowledge, by which it knows "that God exists, or it knows only theoretically, superficially, frigidly, and lazily, but it strives toward a knowledge that is experiential, living, and deep, a knowledge that impels it to
"seek God," to "come to God," to "please him," that he might be experienced as a
"rewarder”.
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"seek God," to "come to God," to "please him," that he might be experienced as a
"rewarder”.
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Slippery conversations concerning God, his providence, and the immortality of our soul, among which is the well-known quodlibetal disputation held before Leo X, where between two men one proved with all reasons that God exists and the other denied it, and the pope at last pronounced to the former, "Indeed, your opinion is the truer one" and to the latter, "but yours makes for a merrier face."
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