Albeit homo sapiens,
which in Latin means the wise species of humans, we have a tendency to outdo
ourselves on our petty, partisan perches in pontificating on God’s will, as if
we know it even though we can merely believe in God, rather than know
God, here defined as the Abrahamic deity—a supreme being within (immanent)
and beyond (transcendent) Creation. This “beyondness” is of the sort that goes
beyond the limits of human thought, perception, and emotions, and even
intuition. Because God’s will is not based in Creation because God is the
Creator, the matter of that will can only be a matter of belief rather
than knowledge as far as we are concerned, and that belief must contend
with the human discretion that is inevitable in interpreting scriptural
passages, any one of which can be hermeneutically literal, figurative,
allegorical, or symbolic. Even within the Christian Trinity, only the Father
knows when the Second Coming of Jesus Christ will occur. In the Gospel of
Matthew (24:36), Jesus says, “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even
the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Does this mean that of
the three persons (Latin) or manifestations (Greek) of the Christian deity,
only the Father is omniscient (i.e., all-knowing: knows absolutely everything)?
It would seem so. The Holy Spirit may come through the Son, but only the Father
is omniscient, and thus the Godhead. In verse 34, Jesus has just said, “Truly I
tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things
have happened.” Even if “that day or hour” is up to the Father, while Jesus
only knows that the Son will come on clouds to judge the living and the dead sometime
within the lifetimes of the people to whom he is speaking, omniscience would
require even the exact second to be known; otherwise, the knowledge is not
complete (i.e., omni). That Jesus is wrong concerning his prediction
does not mean that he is with sin; only that he is represented in the New Testament
as being of the god-man type. Now, if Jesus Christ in the Gospel of
Matthew does not have complete knowledge of when the world will end at the
final judgement by Christ himself, then human claims to know the contents of
God’s will can safely be relegated as arrogance as if it were on stilts during
a flood, for such presumption should be underwater rather than lording itself
in pontificating to other mortals. With all this as context, the partisan rhetoric
and genuine beliefs of the U.S. House Speaker, Mike Johnson, while he was campaigning
in 2026 for Republican candidates for elected office in the U.S. House, can be
situated and analyzed.
The full essay is at "Political Wins as God's Will."
