How do you KNOW God is beyond your comprehension?

Question

If God has been beyond your comprehension then how would you know? Wouldn't that be the opposite of Omnipresence?

Quella, what?

Oh now I believe in God, only I spell it "Universe" or "Nature", or "Things that I do not totally comprehend because they are more comprehensible."

I get it

The Nature of God, the Comprehension of God,... are all for humans to define. Humans define God, I think

Answer 1

I know because many times people have described their God/god/ gods to me and I have had to shake my head and say 'Nope. I just don't understand.'

Of course, it may not be God I don't understand at all. Just explanations.

Maybe God is that warm feeling I get when the joy of life wells up inside me, when the sun shines, when my family are near or when I see someone do something kind.

Maybe God is beyond comprehension because the 'mind' is not designed to 'sense' Him. Maybe that's why we have 'hearts'.

Maybe.
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Answer 2

We don't know.

We don't know if God even exists?

We don't know if God does exist?

Because everything we know about God is revealed. For Christians that revelation comes in words spoken by the prophets.

Did any prophet say that we are unable to comprehend God?

Omniscience and omnipresence are big words with little biblical meaning. In fact, there opposite is true, verses in the bible are label using similar terms.

Answer: We have two belief systems: revelation and science. The word know belongs to science. Applying know to revelation is asking what did the prophets say.

Answer 3

Quantum Physics is beyond my comprehension, yet I know it exists. There are virtually no facts to support the existence of a God, yet that does not stop my belief that a God does exists. As a matter of belief, the only thing that exists is God.

Answer 4

No. God reveals himself to us...not in mysterious ways but in terms we can comprehend.

Acts 17:27 "For them to seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us. "

James 4:8 "Draw close to God, and he will draw close to YOU. "

Isaiah 45:19 In a place of concealment I spoke not, in a dark place of the earth; nor said I to the seed of Jacob, ‘Seek me simply for nothing, YOU people.’ I am Jehovah, speaking what is righteous, telling what is upright.

We cannot draw close to him if he is hidden and unknowable.

God is not omnipresent. The bible says: “Will God truly dwell upon the earth? Look! The heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens, themselves cannot contain you; how much less, then, this house that I have built!”—1 Kings 8:27.

“The heavens” are mentioned as God’s “established place of dwelling.” It cannot contain God's magnitude and power, how much more is limited space?

“God is a Spirit,” says the Bible. (John 4:24) Therefore, he resides in a spiritual realm independent of the physical universe. When the Bible refers to “the heavens” as God’s dwelling place, it is referring to the loftiness of the place where he resides in contrast with the material environment in which we reside. In any event, the Bible teaches that God’s abode is, indeed, clearly distinguished from the physical universe but is at the same time a very specific location.—Job 2:1-2.

Answer 5

No, the opposite of omnipresence is simply being in one singular point in space-time.

God is beyond human comprehension because He transcends time and space in ways we can't even imagine.

Answer 6

The bible of course tells us to seek for to correctly known God so i understand that i will understand Him. even nevertheless we can not understand all there is to correctly known approximately Him. it is purely logical, that an intelligence able to arising heaven and earth may well be previous our finished comprehension as people.The extremely superb component is that as quickly as we come to faith in Him, God proves Himself to us. The trap is that faith comes first. Romans 11:33,34 Oh, the depths of the riches the two between the expertise and the understanding of God ! How unsearchable are His judgments and His techniques previous looking out! 34 For who has frequently happening the recommendations of the Lord? Or who has exchange into His counselor? Isaiah fifty 5:6 - 9 seek for the Lord on a similar time as He might properly be chanced on, call upon Him on a similar time as he's close to. 7 permit the depraved forsake his way, and the unrighteous guy his recommendations; permit him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, he will abundantly pardon. 8 For my recommendations are actually not your recommendations,nor are your techniques My techniques," says the Lord. 9 For because of the fact the heavens are greater than the earth, so are my techniques greater than your techniques, and my recommendations than your recommendations.

Answer 7

Saying God is beyond my comprehension is even less problematic than saying Godel's theorem is or even Calculous. There is no problem in knowing the boundaries of your knowledge.

Answer 8

Actually, God reveals Himself to us as the Trinity, and has revealed Himself to humanity throughout the course of history.

And...how does my ability/inability to comprehend God negate His omnipresence? Some people can't understand how cars work...does this negate their ability to work and get us from one place to another?

Answer 9

If humans could total comprehend God than God would not be God. If we can put something in a box, it is not greater than us. Then we would be God. God has to be greater than us in such a way that we could never understand God's essence.

Answer 10

Man cannot totally understand an entity that can think something into existence. I cannot begin to fathom the total existence of God