12/08/2023 – “No matter how great you think God is, He’s greater. No matter how amazing you think He is, He’s even more amazing. No matter how much attention you’re paying to God, you need to pay more, to seek Him more.” / Psalm 71:14 /Insert: St. Anselm’s ‘Proslogion’
Scripture on Scripture
Friday, December 8, 2023
Hebrews 2:1 says, “For this reason, we must pay much closer attention.” It’s scripture telling us to pay closer attention to scripture. In other words, it doesn’t matter how much attention you’re paying to scripture – you need to pay more close attention. No matter how great you think salvation is, there’s always more. No matter how great you think God is, He’s greater. No matter how amazing you think He is, He’s even more amazing. No matter how much attention you’re paying to God, you need to pay more, to seek Him more. You need to spend more time with Him, to be growing more in Him. You need to love Him more, praise Him more, know Him more, believe Him more, trust Him more, thank Him more, rejoice in Him more and serve Him more. Obey, worship and glorify Him more. Are you paying close attention? Pay closer attention. Because even the scripture that tells you to pay attention, is telling you to pay even closer attention. God is more, salvation is greater, and Messiah is more awesome. Also, ‘more’ is what God has in store for you.
From Message #640 – Better Than Angels
Scripture: Psalms 71:14
TODAY’S MISSION – Pay close attention as you read the word today, and then pay closer attention.
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“But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your reigteousness, of your salvation all day long, though I know not its measure. I will come and proclaim your might acts, O Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteousness, you’re alone. Psalm 71:14-16
Anselm’s “Proslogion” (St Anselm – Archbishop of Canterbury – 1033-1109):
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2068/anselms-proslogion/
An excerpt from the link above:
“Anselm’s Argument for the Existence of God
The most influential and widely-read section of the Proslogion is the argument for the existence of God, which Anselm gives in Chapters 2 and 3. It is usually considered the first ever ontological argument, that is, the first argument that seeks to prove God’s existence based on reason alone rather than on observation of the world around us. It can be summarised like this:
- God is defined as that than which nothing greater can be thought.
- Even a fool, who denies the existence of God, understands the phrase “that than which nothing greater can be thought”.
- Whatever is understood exists in the intellect.
- Therefore, that than which nothing greater can be thought exists in the intellect.
- To exist in reality is greater than to exist in the intellect.
- If that than which nothing greater can be thought existed in the intellect but not in reality, it would be possible to think of something greater, namely an equivalent being which also exists in reality. But this is clearly absurd.
- Therefore, that than which nothing greater can be thought exists in reality as well as in the intellect.
Anselm then spends the rest of the Proslogion proving that that than which nothing greater can be thought would have to have the attributes traditionally ascribed to God, including omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.”