Jesus Got It Right

Is theology more like philosophy or math?

There are many different philosophical positions.

But two times two is always four.

So, theology must be like philosophy. Look at the 20,000 denominations of Christianity.

There seems to be no stable truth. No clear single picture of what God is like.

I beg to differ.

God is knowable through experience.

Every experience of God gives us information about God. And that information is always consistent from one experience to another.

Talk to 100 people who have encountered God in an NDE or other form of religious experience.

The God they meet will always be the same:

Entirely loving.

Endlessly forgiving.

Every experience of God gives us information about God.

And that information is consistent and reliable.

Like two plus two.

Theology is a study of available information.

It is not guesswork.

It can be accurate.

And here’s the big news:

Experience gives us the same information about God that we get from Jesus.

Jesus got God right!

Plato didn’t.

Aristotle didn’t.

Not one of the great thinkers of antiquity got God right. But Jesus did. This is the most powerful argument for the claim we make that Jesus is Lord.

Luke 6:27-36 is the best description ever written of the God we know exists.

And how do we know this God exists? We meet God through experience.

Two plus two is always four. And God is always and at all times—love.