“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” (Romans 11:33)
This brief lesson explains all the problems with different theological schools and beliefs.
We face different schools of thought when it comes to free will, predestination, etc. because we are still reasoning from our heads to God. Revelation is about God first, and then our minds follow.
In fact, we cannot even begin to reason unless we first believe, and we cannot believe unless we rest in the truth that Jesus has Finished the Work!
Check out this man’s take on Arminianism v. Calvinism:
People can look at different Scriptures to justify limited conclusions, and yet these different conclusions clash and contradict.
God did not ask us to walk by our limited reason, since our minds do not see everything. Even scientific research does not rest exclusively on man’s reason. Much of the information we work with and reason from now is forever limited, and new knowledge, new revelation makes its way into our understanding.
Hence, it’s so important to walk by faith, to rest in the truth of what Jesus has already done at the Cross, and to do so, whether we have seen Him physically or not!
Consider this powerful passage in Matthew’s Gospel:
“And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.” (Matthew 28:17)
You have men and women who had followed Jesus during His earthly ministry, who saw all the works He had done on earth, or who had heard the messages He declared, and then they see Him in His fully resurrected form–and yet they still did not believe!
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of Christ (Romans 10:17), not by thinking or limiting ourselves to our own reason.