If you can completely understand God, then he wouldn't be God.
2007-03-15 10:36:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Great Question!
The answer is found in the teaching of Jesus Christ. Before He was crucified, Jesus, talking to his disciples, told them what was going to happen. He told them why He would be crucified, that he would be gone for three days and that He would reappear to them before going back to the Father. (John 13-17)
He told them that they should be glad that He was going because He would send the other part of God the Holy Spirit to "guide them in all truth" (John 16:1-15). He told them then that the job of the Holy Spirit was to guide them in know the truth. That included the writing of the New Testament Gospels, which He oversaw.
Christian believers are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, which is given to them as a sign that they belong to God. It is the first promise of salvation. So when a believer reads the Bible ( in fact we are taught to study it diligently), they are enabled by the Holy Spirit to know what they need to know for that minute.
Can they get it wrong? Sure, but if you talk to some mature believers, who have some theological training and background most of them will agree on the essentials. We are after all human, and we all as humans struggle with a sin nature. That doesn't "go away" the moment one accepts Christ. After accepting Christ one has to walk day to day beside Jesus, putting off the bad and putting on the good, not to gain entrance into heaven, but to do as He called us to do. Why? because we love God. Does that make us special? NOT AT ALL...it makes Him special.
God tells us (in His Word, that He enables us to understand) that HE will make Himself known to us and that WE will understand Him if we seek Him with all our hearts, minds, and strength...so if HE is God, HE can do that...we do NOT do that on our own.
Clear as mud?...it takes TIME to learn all this...if you want to start...e-mail me, I can help you.
2007-03-15 10:52:21 · answer #1 · answered by Cheryl Durham, Ph.D. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is impossible for any created being to completely understand God.
Only the divine intellect can completely comprehend God.
Even the human intellect of Christ (which has a comprehensive grasp of creation, past, present, and future, cannot do this)|
As a corollary of this, no created being can completely understand the *power of God* and everything that God can do.
Only God knows all that is possible to God.
This is because, with the divine simplicity, God's being and God's power are *identical,* hence His power is co-extensive with His being|
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2007-03-15 10:56:57 · answer #2 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_ergo_sum
"But I have convinced myself that there is absolutely nothing in the world, no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies. Does it now follow that I too do not exist? No: if I convinced myself of something [or thought anything at all] then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So, after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." (AT VII 25; CSM II 16–17)
By questioning our perceptions, we give order to what would otherwise be chaos.
2007-03-15 10:40:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well!.., the lord left his word for to be understood, the lord said that the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge, and to depart from evil is understanding. Psalms 33:11 says that his thoughts go out to all generations.
2007-03-15 10:45:52 · answer #4 · answered by poetified2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the answer...we arent suppose to understand all of God's knowledge...we wouldnt be here if we did...God is the power of our being
2007-03-15 10:43:17 · answer #5 · answered by wildcrazyfan2006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think one feels like they need to understand god in order to feel better about things that they don't feel good about - such as death, misfortune, illness, etc. People attribute man-like qualities to him and rationalise all they want as to the "motives" behind such things. I think there's a psychological need to believe they understand rather than live in fear and ignorance.
2007-03-15 10:41:59 · answer #6 · answered by lanibear55 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I really didn't know that anyone thought that.
I certainly wouldn't make that claim.
2007-03-15 11:01:40 · answer #7 · answered by thankyou "iana" 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's why I believe in Pepto. IT's mysteries will never make sense...
2007-03-15 10:39:17 · answer #8 · answered by Jedi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's true.
God is beyond our comprehension.
2007-03-15 10:55:19 · answer #9 · answered by huda 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
correct for GOD's intellect is beyond comprehension.
2007-03-15 10:39:43 · answer #10 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋