“Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.”
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Principle V: Abraham’s Promise
The devil determined to disqualify humanity by death through sin. Humanity, in their condemnation and sin, turned away from the knowledge of God not knowing their purpose and neither understanding the labor of God, because none looked to Him. None looked to His end, but only and always to their own. But God does not relent. He knows our danger, and He would make a way to redeem the work through the righteousness attained by faith because, “without faith it is impossible to please Him.”