R.C. Sproul

A strange word to use, isn't it?

Whenever we use the word plus, we use it in arithmetic or in mathematics.

It's a form that indicates some type of addition.

Something added on is a plus, something that is extra.

One of the most popular movies ever to be seen in the United States of America had perhaps the shortest title of any movie ever.

There was a movie I saw when I was a boy called She, S-H-E, that's a pretty short title.

But this title wasn't even a word, it was two initials, E-T, E-T.

The whole country fell in love with this strange visitor from outer space.

What does E-T mean?

Extra special.

E.T.

is the abbreviation that we give for one who is alien, one who comes from outside our experience and our environment, one who is different, one who is extra.

He is apart.

He is strange.

He is alien.

One would think that the title E.T.

would even more suitably apply to God who is above and beyond this terrestrial ball, this sphere and environment that is locked by this land in which we live, that God is the supreme

alien, the one who is supremely extra.

And so what Otto was getting at when he talks about the holiness of God as communicating a certain plus, he is talking about that sense in which God is above and beyond anything that we experience on earth.

we may be made in His image.