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Our "Godly" Quest?

Ever since the Garden, we have been indiscriminate suckers for the enticement of omnipotence. We are cerebral voyeurs, unable to accept the idea that some knowledge may lie outside our legitimate purview. At its worst, this insatiable curiosity shows itself in our morbid love for trivialities--we are information junkies who cannot discern relevance from immediacy. But even in more respectable garb, we feed our prurient interests with a "godly" quest for apologetics. We have swallowed the lie that certainty requires exhaustive knowledge. We want to be able to "prove God" so that everyone can really know and quit worrying--especially us. God demands active faith; we seek irrefutable certainty.

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