- How God Is Both Incomprehensible and Knowable at the Same Time
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
- Apophatic theology - Wikipedia
In this sense, we can say "God is Love", "God is Beauty", "God is Good" The apophatic or negative way stresses God's absolute transcendence and unknowability in such a way that we cannot say anything about the divine essence because God is so totally beyond being
- What Does the Bible Say About God Is Unknowable?
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made
- Is God Truly Unknowable? - Leading To Life
Misunderstanding God’s nature has led to widespread confusion in Christianity The idea that God is an incomprehensible mystery distances believers from truly knowing Him
- Topical Bible: The Incomprehensibility of God
While God is incomprehensible, He is not entirely unknowable Through divine revelation, God has made aspects of His character and will known to humanity The Scriptures serve as the primary means by which God reveals Himself, providing insight into His nature, purposes, and redemptive plan
- Knowing an Unknowable God | BJU Seminary
We cannot comprehend God, for even God’s thoughts are unattainable Isaiah 55:8–9 says that the distance between our finite, transient thoughts and God’s infinite wisdom is higher than the distance between the heavens and the earth
- What is the incomprehensibility of God? - GotQuestions. org
The incomprehensibility of God means that, although people can know God truly, they cannot know Him fully David reflected this reality when he declared that he knows that God is worthy of praise, yet he is unable to comprehend the magnitude of His greatness
- God Is Incomprehensible - Ligonier Ministries
God remains incomprehensible because He reveals Himself without revealing everything there is to know about Him "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)
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