Topics: Doubt; God; Limitations; Mysteries; Questions
References: Psalm 8:3–4; Isaiah 40:12–14; Romans 11:33–36
If you’re pondering the imponderables, here are more to add to the list:
• You tell a man there are 400 billion stars, and he’ll believe you. But tell him a bench has wet paint, and he has to touch it. Why?
• Why is the ground stuff called hamburger when it’s made of beef?
• Why do you put suits in garment bags and put garments in suitcases?
• Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
• Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?
• Why do they lock gas station bathrooms—are they afraid someone will sneak in there and clean them?
• If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
• Why are there five syllables in the word monosyllabic?
• When two airplanes almost collide, why do they call it a near miss instead of a near hit?
• Why do banks charge you a nonsufficient funds fee on money they know you don’t have?
• Why do you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?
• Why are they called apartments when they’re stuck together?
• Why are they called buildings when they are already finished? Shouldn’t we call them builts?
• If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?
At birth the human brain weighs, on average, fourteen ounces. It usually reaches its maximum size at age fifteen (proving the size of the brain has nothing to do with intelligence level). At its maximum size, the brain weighs an average of forty-six ounces, slightly less than three pounds. In liquid measurement, that’s about a Big Gulp from the soda machine at the local gas station.
There is no way for medical professionals to prove this, but the old theory was that we use only about 10 percent of our brain capacity. If that were true and we start out with only a Big Gulp in the first place, we’re down to about a quarter-pounder with cheese by the time we’re done. And we think that with our quarter-pounder with cheese, we’re going to comprehend the infinite, decipher the mysteries of the millennia, and answer all the questions? Right!
Isn’t it logically impossible that we as finite creatures could ever fully understand the infinite?
—John Stumbo, “God’s Sovereignty: The Ultimate Question,” Preaching Today Audio, no. 202