God is so vast and complex, do you really think we can question Him just because we?

Question

can not fathom the depths of His Being? God said to really know Him we must first know the love of Christ.

Answer 1

Sure we can question God. Asking questions is how you get to know somebody. You can question somebody with out being rude or obnoxious about it. And while we can not fathom the depths of His Being, we don't need to. That's what faith is all about. As you know God more, you know more about Him, and then you immerse yourself a little deeper into the depths of His Being. It's a life long process that is never completed. The first step to knowing and understanding the love of Christ is to accept what He did for us on the cross. After that we can work on understanding the love of Christ more. Because what Christ did for us was huge.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
If you study just what Jesus went through physically as reported by the roman historian Josephus, it makes you wonder how anybody could have survived the pre-crucifix treatment.
It's all a life long journey and it all starts with that first step.

Answer 2

Precisely whats wrong with religion is that it invokes immunity from discussion and reason by saying this!!!

Yeah, lets go witch hunting. Why? Don't ask why! God is so vast and complex. Do you really think we can question him just because we can not fathom that depths of His being? You don't love him do you?!

Yeah right.

Answer 3

Ahhh, the"mystery" of God. A mystery in the Christian sense is not something we can never know, but something that is always being revealed. The deeper we go into the mystery, the more will be revealed.
If you are one who believes that we are made in the image and likeness of God, we should constantly question him and learn about him because the more we learn about God the more we learn about ourselves. There are many instances in Scripture of people questioning God, if you believe in Scripture.

Christians certainly know that God is neither male nor female. But we only have our human experience and language to describe things divine. As far as using a masculine pronoun for God because it came out of a patriarchal society, Abraham and his descendants (the Hebrews and Christians as well as the Muslims) certainly could have used a feminine pronoun. Every surrounding culture had female Gods, so the idea wasn't unknown to them. But every culture that has goddesses had some kind of belief that the divine goddess gave birth to the earth and everything in it... including humans, and eventually would result in the notion that everything, the trees, the sun. the seas and humans are somehow divine. Some Eastern and New Age traditions still promote this.

The Hebrews believed that God created the world and everything in it from nothing. We are created beings. Calling God "he" instead of "she" prevents us from thinking we ourselves are God. So the Hebrews kind of knew what they were doing.

This is a difficult thing for some of us to accept because of our pride, that God is God alone and we are creatures created out of love. But then, they have some very famous company beginning with Adam and Eve.

Answer 4

The nature exists in all, nature is everything. Nature is God. The Christian God is not God because he, that's right God is only male in Christianity, is limited by his own religion. I am a part of God and talk with God all the time. Thus, the Christan's God's depths are only as deep as far as one believes it to be. Nature is undefined and has no depths. The Christan God is simply a misunderstanding by man of nature itself, like most dues beings in religions. It is man's defined mind trying to explain the undefined in writing/story telling with a little bit of current events thrown in the mix. This is why God in Christianity is a male, it was created in a very paternal society. God could not possibly be a weak confused women right? Let's not try to limit God now!

Answer 5

Well, since I am a Jew, I will have to live without knowing the love of Christ.

But lets go to the Fiddler on the Roof and see how Tevye talks to
G-d.

Here are the lyrics to If I Were a Rich Man:

"Dear God, you made many, many poor people.
I realize, of course, that it's no shame to be poor.
But it's no great honor either!
So, what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?"

If I were a rich man,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
I wouldn't have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.

I'd build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen,
Right in the middle of the town.
A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below.
There would be one long staircase just going up,
And one even longer coming down,
And one more leading nowhere, just for show.

I'd fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks
For the town to see and hear.
And each loud "cheep" and "swaqwk" and "honk" and "quack"
Would land like a trumpet on the ear,
As if to say "Here lives a wealthy man."

If I were a rich man,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
I wouldn't have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.

I see my wife, my Golde, looking like a rich man's wife
With a proper double-chin.
Supervising meals to her heart's delight.
I see her putting on airs and strutting like a peacock.
Oy, what a happy mood she's in.
Screaming at the servants, day and night.

The most important men in town would come to fawn on me!
They would ask me to advise them,
Like a Solomon the Wise.
"If you please, Reb Tevye..."
"Pardon me, Reb Tevye..."
Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes!
And it won't make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong.
When you're rich, they think you really know!

If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack
To sit in the synagogue and pray.
And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall.
And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, several hours every day.
That would be the sweetest thing of all.

If I were a rich man,
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man.
I wouldn't have to work hard.
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
If I were a biddy biddy rich,
Yidle-diddle-didle-didle man.

Answer 6

You would have to clarify what you mean by your term of phraseology - "we can question Him". In the positive sense, God is our Father and we are His children, so it would be proper to ask Him questions. And since He is a Triune God, I think Jesus being part of that mystery, wouldn't mind if we asked God - he taught us who the Father is. But to question God in the sense that you might know better; well I would think about that one three times over.

Answer 7

Question him? What?! How dare you even say such things! May the Almighty forgive you for even letting the idea of questioning our lord and master, lest you be punished as a heretic and nonbeliever and burn in the lake of fire for all eterenity with the rest of infidels! I am disgusted to even be on the same website as you heathens.

Answer 8

To know Him personally, we must know Christ, however, first philosophy can give some insight into the nature of God.

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Answer 9

Of course we can question. That is where free will comes in. We may not always understand or like the answers.

Answer 10

I'm quite happy to trust in the lord, it's the people speaking for her that I worry about...