I have started to read a classic work on the holiness of God by R. C. Sproul. It is the first book that I have read by this highly esteemed author. I hope to share some more excerpts in the near future.
In Otto's study of the human experience of the holy, he discovered that the clearest sensation that human beings have when they experience the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are aware of the presence of God we become most aware of ourselves as creatures. When we meet the Absolute, we know immediately that we are not absolute. When we meet the Infinite, we become acutely conscious that we are finite. When we meet the Eternal, we know we are temporal...When we encounter Him, the totality of our creatureliness breaks upon us and shatters the myth that we are demigods, junior-grade deities who will try to live forever. (Sproul, R. C. The Holiness of God. Illinois: Tyndale, 1998. 44-45)
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