@davejey Said
Thankyou Arcades for going to the trouble of typing out these scriptures. I have grappled with these thoughts of yours too, and one of the answers I have have found is in the book of Isaiah 55:vv8-9
"My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways" says the Lord. " For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways. And My thoughts than your thoughts"
Isaiah was a great prophet among prophets.
Peace
https://www.theforumsite.com/forum/topic/The-religious-debaters-fallback/351710 Here is a link to another thread where non-believers question believers who, thinking they are losing the debate, inevitably fall back on the same argument. Do you have any thoughts about that?
It occurs to me that there is a closed-mindedness or a spiritual blindness which really makes it difficult for the non-believer to even consider that their own thoughts are perhaps far removed from the thoughts of God.
St. Julian said that all of creation fits into the hand of God as a hazlenut fits into the hand of a man. This is speaking figuratively ofcourse.
I can only imagine how a human being must appear to an ant. We are so much larger than they. Maybe they are just barely aware of us or maybe they are keenly aware of us. We are able to study them but we still don't understand them completely. There is actually very little that we can claim to understand completely.
God, compared to all of creation, is even larger in comparision then we ourselves are to ants. God understands us completely and it's actually amazing that God should even be mindful of us. St. Julian expressed astonishment that God is not only mindful of us but also loves us.
Unfortunately that love is as difficult for us to fathom at times as it is for an ant to understand why a human being has any interest in studying the ant in the first place.
God bless and keep you Davejey.