Tuesday, January 29, 2013

We can know God even though he is incomprehensible


“What is God Jehovah Almighty?”  “Who is God Jehovah Almighty?”  People often wonder if these questions can be answered; especially when we in the Christian Church proclaim that the true God is eternal, infinite, and perfect in all his being.  I mean, if he is without beginning or ending when will we ever fully know, say his love or justice?  Would we ever come to the end of his perfect love or justice?  Well, if he is infinite (without beginning or ending) then of course not.  So then can we know him? 

Yes.  Let me explain.

First, it is true it is impossible for anyone to give a perfect description of God or know God completely as God knows himself.  God is incomprehensible because he is infinitely perfect. No human mind or word can fully know and express the perfections of God!  See these Bible verses Job 11:7; 27:23; Psalm 77:19; 145:3; Isaiah 40:28; 45:22; Romans 11:33.

But secondly, though God cannot be fully know or described by us, yet we may know and describe something about him.  He has revealed himself to us, and that which he makes known to us we can know for he teaches it to us.  For instance God sent his only begotten Son, Jesus to this earth to be the Saviour of sinners.  Now we see God in the flesh.  “He that has seen me, has seen the Father,” Jesus said (John 14:9).  Also God’s glory is set forth in the Bible.  The Bible is God’s Word.  In it God teaches us about himself as we read of his works in our world.  And then there is creation.  Our natural world reveals the attributes of God to us…so much so as to leave us without excuse!  See Romans 1.

You see in Jesus Christ, in the God-the-Spirit-inspired-Bible, and in creation God overcomes our darkness and finite mind.  We can know something of God, because God wants us to know something about him.  Yes, we cannot know God perfectly, but what we do know about God from Jesus Christ and the Spirit speaking through the Bible is perfectly true.  And we come to know what God wants us to know through the things I mentioned above through the Spirit and the faith he gives us.  Thanks be to God that “in his light we see light.”  (Psalm 36:9)

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