Analysis Of Tozer's The Knowledge Of The Holy

Who is God? Where does He come from? How did He obtain the abilities to create the world? These are a few questions that move through many, if not all, Christian minds. True believers have an understanding of scripture and therefore a basic understanding of God and creation. Taking into consideration that Tozer composed The Knowledge of the Holy in the twentieth century, his writing comes across more as an informative mystic. The best ways to express these ideas to a reader of the remarkable actions of God are through His scripture. Sadly, throughout his text, Tozer very rarely mentions actual scriptures from the Holy Bible, but when he does acknowledge the spiritual relationship that he has with God, it is delightfully overpowering. Nevertheless,

Why is it essential that Christians have faith in His wisdom? Tozer sublimely explains that God 's wisdom is "infinite."[1] To better elaborate, there is nothing that God does not know; His knowledge is never ending, and the derivation of all truth.[2] In addition, Tozer depicts that all of God 's actions are done with "perfect wisdom."[3] Proceeding onward, the author brings up an intriguing point in chapter eleven, which is, that it is vital that Christians have faith in God’s wisdom.[4] As expressed in The Knowledge of the Holy, many people throughout time have questioned the legitimism of God 's wisdom being pure, on the grounds that there is a considerable amount of evil in the world.[5] That being said, questioning God 's wisdom like this is completely logical and can be normal for believers, and sometimes even non-believers to think, but Tozer views it as debauched.[6] To clarify, Tozer’s view on God 's wisdom is entirely faith based. To better explain, regardless of how dark and wicked things may appear in this "fallen world" people still must have faith in God’s "perfect wisdom," and realize that there is always a just reason for it.[7] Tozer goes on to explain that it is just not enough to have faith in God 's flawless wisdom, but rather that people must also exercise their faith by prayer too.[8] He says this on the grounds that God has assumed complete responsibility of humanity’s everlasting happiness, so the least mankind can do is have faith in God 's faultless, never-ending wisdom.[9] The reader can easily interpret that Tozer had a very mystic, strong follower of Christ, view on the matter of God’s “infinite” and “perfect”