One of the most common and inhibiting mistakes believers make in their understanding of salvation and growing in their faith is looking at God through the lense of their own human experience (rather than looking at their human experience through the lense of God's character).
One of the facets of this mistake is the natural tendancy to think God can only do what we've seen him do before or what WE understand as possible (read that again and think about it). This a natural and even logical conclusion that applies to a large portion of our human experience; however, God is not bound to our human experience. On the contrary, God created and set in motion the human experience.
So why did He do it?
Here's my simple theology: I think God created our human experience for us to enjoy and share. First, for us to enjoy it with Him and second, for us to share with each other... and ever increasing "each other". The cool thing about these two dynamics is that they each play off each other. Enjoying this life with Him drives us to want to share our experiences with others (don't you enjoy sharing things you like with others?). And the best part of sharing is finding someone who has never experienced what we find so amazing and then watching them experience it for the first time. Isn't that fun to do? That kind of sharing, or a consistent sharing of such experiences (a.k.a. friendship), may just be what leads "others" to enjoying life with God, too.
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