Bible College

I attended a young adults group at my church last tuesday just gone.
I decided to give it one more go, as i had decided to not attend it because it was a tad to social for my liking.
A leader of ours, was speaking about God and how his Grace extends not only to us in the form of eternal life.
But also in the form of predicaments... situational Grace.
God who changes circumstances.
Now i attend bible college in Nz, and as such have acquired a small amount of theological knowledge, and immediately had several "buts..." to this issue, to quote a lecturer of mine "What God does sometimes he doesnt do all the time"
That God althoug he could change circumstances, due to him being both 100% just and 100% merciful must abide by the law. E.g the cross, the law is that the price for sin is death, the mercy and justice is that although the price was paid, it was paid by Jesus.
and my explination for why God didnt drastically change circumstances was that He must abide by his law, Freewill.

I shared this to little reaction and little understanding i believe.

Then the other explinations of the room were as follows.
God lets us have these experiences to test us
" " to strengthen us
Gods Grace wouldnt matter if we were perfect, these times serve to make Grace needed.

I couldnt believe their responses, they werent correct... theologically they were wrong.
My understanding of God...but then i stopped...right there.
MY understanding..... ME

I looked around and thought to myself... sure, i may be correct, theologically, but theology doesnt account for the mystery of God.. it doesnt account for his command of the cosmos.. of the creation of light.... of the breathing of stars.

What i had witnissed was (as i like to call it) small town faith... Faith born of a human understanding of God.
not a scholarly...mathmatical, structured, predictable understanding.
But an understanding of A+B=God
Thats the danger of learning about God.

You learn ABOUT him... Not from Him