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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life__f indeed we can conceive of it. Yet we have no indication that even Jesus was constantly awash with revelations as to what he should do. His union with the Father was so great that he was at all times obedient. This obedience was something that rested in his mature will and understanding of his life before God, not on always being told __ow do this_ and __ow do that_ with regard to every details of his life or work.

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Dallas Willard

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

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...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge _ as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness_. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is marked out for us. Truth is the approximation of thought to reality _ Its measure is the distance thought has travelled _ toward that intelligible system _ The degree of truth of a particular proposition is to be judged in the first instance by its coherence with experience as a whole, ultimately by its coherence with that further whole, all comprehensive and fully articulated, in which thought can come to rest.