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Originally Posted by aron
To the low, God reveals His word as low. To the fallen, God reveals His word as fallen. To those burdened by their natural concepts, God reveals His word as the natural concepts of others. To those teaching vanity, God reveals his words as vain. And so on.
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I'm not tracking with you here. Where does this come from? I'm not sure whether you are mocking Lee's revelation as being what he gets for not really seeking after God, or that we get the revelation we deserve.
But from my perspective, most of those revelations that you are talking about do not seem to be the revelation of (by) God, but the imagination of man concerning God (and called revelation). In other words, God is not revealing himself as vain. But the vain see God as if he is the kind of vanity they are.
I do not think that God reveals his words as the natural concepts of man. But natural man perceives them in that manner because that is what he is — natural. And since some of the words of God, coming past Lee in the train of vanquished foes was such a stench in his (Lee's) nostrils, it would seem that he was not really one of those who saw God in it, but those who saw death in it. Says something about the god he believed in.