Describing The Incomprehensible

A response to the suggested Essay topic: “Is it a problem for the church that we have four gospels rather than one? Illustrate your answer from at least two gospels.”

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Describing The Incomprehensible

We may not know, we cannot tell . . . but we believe

For the simple believer, having four gospels rather than one is a continuing delight and joy. Each sheds a new and different light on Christ’s life, teaching, passion and resurrection; we hunger for more, not less. We know that God made man cannot be fully described, let alone fully comprehended, in one, two, three or four short ‘books’ – “the world itself could not contain the books that would be written” , as evidenced by the continuing flood of new attempts to explain and interpret the scriptures that continue to flow from authors and preachers, adding to two thousand years’ worth of such material. To the sceptic, how...