I think we can sometimes have this problem in our faith. Sometimes we put on glasses to so closely analyze one item up-close and personal, and we let the big picture grow slightly hazy. It's not a bad thing to study and analyze certain aspects of faith or of our Creator, but I think it is very important to also maintain an understanding and appreciation for the bigger story.
Our God is so much bigger than our thought processes or understanding. The bigger story does not change based on our feelings or perception of various realities. God is unchangeable and perfect in absolutely every way. He is much bigger than any problem or doubt we may cross. Just think of the way He designed our minds. Did you know that in any given dream no person is made up? You have seen every person in your dreams before in some capacity- whether it's a dear friend, someone you passed in the hallway at the office, or someone you saw in the crowd while watching a baseball game on TV. Your mind is literally incapable of creating faces. I think that's incredible. Only the Creator of the universe can create new faces. Only the King of kings is able to both make new things and make all things new in His redemption of man and creation. That is one big God. Christianity is the only religion that our God does not demand us to work up a ladder to get to Him. Instead, He descends the stairs into the broken and messed up world, lives a spotless life, and is slaughtered by people who rejected Him. But death had no chains on Him, no power to confine Him. On the third day He conquered the grave and so enables His children to likewise have eternal life with Him in Heaven.
So while it is fascinating and a good thing to study and learn and pick apart reasonings and understandings of your faith, know this: You serve and worship the almighty King who would rather let His only Son die for you than spend eternity without you.
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"Who has believed what he has heard from us? And
to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him
like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or
majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He
was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows,[c] and acquainted with grief; and
as one from whom men hide their faces he
was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and
afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our
iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his
wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of
us all." -Isaiah 53:1-6-
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God
did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the
world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but
whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in
the name of the only Son of God." -John 3:16-18-
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