By John B. Manos, Bellarmine Forum - What Is In the Old Testament, men dared to say of the Lord: “What does God know? He judges us as through a mist. The clouds are His covering, and He does not consider our affairs, for He walks about the poles of heaven.”... That was the ancient complaint: a distant God, detached and uninterested... What Could Be But the Incarnation changed everything. God no longer walks about the poles of heaven. He lies on a manger bed of straw. He suffers with us. He bleeds with us. He dies with us.