Excerpt from Glimpses of Great Fields

"Canst thou by searching find out God?" "If a man die, shall he live again?" These were the questions that already concerned the Chaldean seer, and that ever since have been uppermost in the minds of thinking men. They are the questions that every philosophy and every religion has attempted in some way to answer. The answer that on the part of Christian thinkers has from time to time been given to the first of these questions has been determined by the understanding that has been had of its meaning. Those who have understood Job to be speaking of a comprehensive knowledge of God, have answered his question in the negative. In this sense it is felt that God cannot be found out by searching. But those who have understood Job as speaking not of a knowledge comprehensive but apprehensive, have usually answered his question in the affirmative. It is now conceded that God may be apprehended, that is, that his existence as the result of searching may be affirmed. This was the opinion of the great Schelling.

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