Need some help with interpretation

[georgemiller]

Does anyone know the correct interpretation of the following Scripture teaching?

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher
than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8, 9.

 

[BVMFatima]

Does anyone know the correct interpretation of the following Scripture teaching?

"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher
than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8, 9.

1 Tim 3:15 mentions the Church is the truth. When you are looking on how to interpret scripture, look towards the Catholic Church.

Never, and I mean never try to interpret scripture for yourself. This is very dangerous and this is how scripture gets misunderstood. This is why we have 35,000 plus denominations in Protestantism, who all claim the holy spirit is guilding every single follower who made the denomination. They all have different doctrine, so is the holy spirit confused? No

When you have questions on how scripture is to be interpretated, write down questions and look for answers, such as the catechism or even here at CA

God Bless,
BVMFatima

 

[Lancer]

**Father William Most (1914-1999±-Diocese Dubuque, Iowa–Professor, Loras College)
**

Now a most remarkable line in** vv. 8-9**: My thoughts are not
your thoughts: as far as the heavens are above the earth, so far
are my ways above your ways. – Yes, we could not understand God,
for He is transcendent, above all our categories (on
transcendence, please see our comments on the first part of
chapter 6 above), So we could not know what to expect form Him,
if He would not tell us, which He did by the commandments and the
covenant. Still more, He gave us His only Son, incarnate, and so
having a human heart. We can understand a human heart. Further,
so no one might say: Yes, but the human heart is the heart of a
divine Person --He has added the Immaculate Heart of His Mother,
which is perfectly attuned to His heart. We can surely understand
her heart.

Aquinas Study Bible
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Pax Christi

 

[fordhamstudent]

The context of the verse is that YHWH is calling His people to be a great nation if they repent and should not worry about how He is going to bless Israel, but only know that He will do it and to not worry about the process. This can also be applied to the Catholic Church, the new People of God, who are daily called to repentance and metanoia and who if they trust in the Lord shall be a great nation representing the Holy One of Israel, the Messiah, Jesus Christ.

 

[Lancer]

Again…Fr. William Most on Transcendence of God (Isa 6 comments)

This transcendence of God is something we greatly need to
realize, or try to realize. For there are two poles, i. e.,
centers about which things cluster, in our relationship to God.
One is the pole of love, closeness, warmth. The other is the
sense of His infinite majesty, greatness. It is this that Isaiah
saw so well by means of this anthropomorphic vision. The Saints
and Fathers of the Church have understood this aspect especially
well. Thus Dionysius the Areopagite, writing around the year 500.
A. D. said that God is best known by “unknowing.” St. Gregory of
Nyssa in his said: “The true vision of the One we
seek. . . consists in this:in not seeing. For the one sought is
beyond all knowledge.” St. Augustine ( 1.
6. 6 said: “He must not even be called inexpressible, for when we
say that word, we say something.”

There is just a trifle of exaggeration in such sayings as
that of Augustine. Yet there is far more truth in them. Similarly
the philosopher Plotinus said ( 6. 8. 9) that God
is"beyond being." Plato seems to have said much the same in
6. 509B.

The explanation of such sayings it this: If we compare any
word, e. g., good or being, as used to apply to God, and as used
to apply to any creature, we find that the sense is, in the two
cases, partly the same, but mostly different. Hence God is
inexpressible, as Augustine said.

Isaiah had a deep sense of this reality. To lack it means that
one’s devotion will be sick, mired in the slush of a distortion
of love.

fr-most-on-isaiah/chapter-1/chapter-2/chapter-3/chapter-4/chapter-5/chapter-6"]Chapter 6 - Patristic Bible Commentary

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