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"The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever" (Deut. 29:29). It's not as if we have no knowledge of God or as if we have consummate knowledge of God; rather, we have a working knowledge of God that is useful and crucial for our lives.
- The Incomprehensibility of God
- Why God Is Incomprehensible
- Implications of God’s Incomprehensibility
- The Knowability of God
- Implications of The Knowability of God
Scripture teaches that we can have a true and personal knowledge of God, but this does not mean we will ever understand him exhaustively. The Bible is clear that God is ultimately incomprehensible to us; that is, we can never fully comprehend his whole being. The following passages show this: These verses teach that not only is God’s whole being in...
The main reasons for God’s incomprehensibility are: 1. God is infinite and his creatures are finite. By definition, creatures depend on their Creator for their very existence and are limited in all aspects. Yet God is without limitations in every quality he possesses. This Creator/creature, infinite/finite gap will always exist. 2. The perfect unit...
Because God can never be fully known, those who seek to know God should be deeply humbled in the process, realizing that they will always have more to learn. The appropriate response to God is a heart of wonder and awe in light of his incomprehensible greatness. God’s incomprehensibility also means that beliefs can be held with firm conviction even...
The incomprehensibility of God could lead to despair or apathy in the quest to know God, but the Bible also teaches that God is knowable. While God can never be exhaustively understood, he can be known truly, personally, and sufficiently. God is personal, has definite characteristics, and has personally revealed himself so that he can be truly know...
God’s personal and sufficient revelation of himself should foster solid conviction among believers. We need not live in ambiguity and uncertainty about who God is and what he demands of his creatures. The increasing influence of Eastern religions on the West, certain postmodern views of truth, and religious pluralism all emphasize God’s incomprehen...
It doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to know anything about God, far less that it’s impossible to know him. Nor does it mean that we should be agnostic or uncertain about what may or may not be true about him. The Bible reveals a God who can be known and is full of true statements about who he is and what he is like.
- Luke Jenner
We try in vain to know or understand God as a material entity, because by definition God is infinite spirit. To the spiritual sense we each can exercise, God IS comprehensible.
By Erik ThoennesWhy God Is IncomprehensibleThe main reasons for God’s incomprehensibility are:1. God is infinite and his creatures are finite. By definition, creatures depend on their Creator for their very existence and are limited in all aspects. Yet God is without limitations in every quality he possesses. 2. The perfect unity of God’s attributes is far beyond the realm of human ...
God is the incomprehensible Creator, yet he is also the triune-personal God who has disclosed himself to us in a covenantal context and in real history. Because Scripture is God-given, the very language that God employs to describe himself is accurate, true, reliable, yet not exhaustive, univocal, or equivocal, but analogical. What is needed to ...
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May 31, 2016 · 1. God is infinite and his creatures are finite. By definition, creatures depend on their Creator for their very existence and are limited in all aspects.
