That’s right, don’t stone heretics. None of us have perfect theology. Our understanding of God is as imperfect as we are. We see in part. We speak in part. In part, because God is beyond our ability to grasp fully. Oh yes, over time we have come to understand Him better because of the revelation of Himself that is in Jesus of Nazareth. We have the accumulated historic wisdom of the church on which we build. Let’s share the little we know with each other and let no one judge the other for his partial or immature understanding, but let us bring each other along in patience and love. Our personal understanding of God is progressive, as is our historic understanding. Don’t gather stones for heretics, because we all may have been one at sometime in our immature past.
“For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” 1 Corinthians 13:9-12 (ESV)
