If God is an entity who we can not comprehend, how can one presume to serve it's will?

Question

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Answer 1

You can't know God until you know thy self. This is what was taught in ancient Christianity but the Christians on Yahoo answers wouldn't know anything about that. You can't know God until you put on the anointing mind, complete mind and knowing thy self, your divine soul self. Divinty can only know divinity.

From thomas gospel,

3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

111. Jesus said, "The heavens and the earth will roll up in your presence, and whoever is living from the living one will not see death."

Does not Jesus say, "Those who have found themselves, of them the world is not worthy"?

And also earlier church fathers, early Church Father Clement of Alexandria: “…the greatest of all lessons to know one's self. For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God…

others,

In the third century 1 John 3:2 read somewhat differently than it does in our present translations. Quoting from Origen’s Contra Celsum we read that “it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like God, and shall see Him as He is”.

St. Nazianzen, Knowledge makes “us like God; so that when we have thus become like Himself, God may, to use a bold expression, hold converse with us as Gods, being united to us, and that perhaps to the same extent as He already knows those who are known to Him”

"Wherefore I counsel thee to know thyself, and to know God. For understand how that there is within thee that which is called the soul — by it the eye seeth, by it the ear heareth... But why this world was made, and why it passes away, and why the body exists, and why it falls to decay, and why it continues, thou canst not know until thou hast raised thy head from this sleep in which thou art sunk..." (Melito, Bishop of Sardis, Bishop of Ittica, and Bishop of Ittica [AD 160-177]).

This is beyond the milk doctrine.

Answer 2

We can comprehend who he is, but we cannot comprehend all of what he is.

This is a bad analogy, but here it goes: Imagine you dont have alot of money ( I dont know if you do or not but roll with it) You look at a really really expensive car, that does not offer test drives. You can look at it, and you can see it, but you can never comprehend the actual way it drives, the way it handles, the way it feels to drive it. You definently can get the specs on the car, but you may never fully experiance what its all about.

In a bad analogy, that is what God is. We know who He is, but we may never until eternity know WHAT God is.
In Psalms, it says: "thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path". A lamp only lets you see a couple steps in front of you. God never gives you the whole picture.

Jesus is God in the flesh, he died for our sins. He had offered us eternal life by trusting in him. Before he left the deciples for the last time, they were all worried, they didnt know what to do and were very affraid.

Jesus then said that he will leave the Holy Spirit to guide us. This is what makes up the third part of the trinity. God in the spirit. This is how God shows you his will. All you have to do is pray, and accept Jesus as your personal savior.

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Answer 3

the only way I can answer is to say I don't "presume" to serve His will, I just do the best I can to follow the commandments He outlines in His Word. It's pretty simple and straightforward. We as humans just make everything so difficult. No one will ever comprehend Him completely this side of Heaven.

Answer 4

I like your questions, they show that you are seriously thinking....
Obviously, God is an entity that we cannot comprehend...how can a created being ever hope to comprehend his Creator? It would be easier to teach a frog about Friday.
This is exactly why God chose to come to earth in a human body...
He also got to experience first-hand what temptation is like from the human's point of view.
Last, but certainly not least, He took on human form in order to die in our place...(the wages of sin is DEATH).

Answer 5

One starts with the presumtion of such a being existing (since no proof could ever be provided), then presumes it has a will (in the anthropomorphic way most theists understand the word) and everything falls neatly into its self deceptive niche.

Answer 6

I like the way you think. It's something that I've been juggling in my mind for a while now.
For one, I'm not actually a Christian, but if I had to point to the bible for an answer, it would be this verse, book and chapter I can't remember.
"I shall write my laws in their hearts."
But then, everyone thinks about right and wrong in some subtley different ways. So, my opinion is to follow your heart, not an ancient book.

Answer 7

we can comprehend God... that's why the bible was written, so we could know God's qualities (by the way he has many) and know how he wants to be served... besides we have the gospel that talks about Jesus who was the image of the living God. you just have to study the bible to see it...

Answer 8

EXCELLENT question. It is ridiculous for (some) religious people to pretend to know and understand God through their holy book or some spiritual connection, and then say that he/she/it is infinite and totally out of the range of our human minds. It is one of many loop-holes they use when things are not understood.

Why is the Bible so great? Because it was written by God.
Why is the Bible flawed? Because it was written by man.

Jesus was a man, but really he was God, but really he was man.
God is one, but he's kind of three, but he's really one.

Answer 9

We have the bible and prayer.Some people are the the hands,feet.heart of God towards others.Mother Teresa was one of them,there are many more as well.

Answer 10

Dont you think that the only (the SOLE) creature to answer this question is DOG, oh pardon me, GOD? But then, you cant ask him because he doesnt exist. Right? RIGHT..