I don't know god.
2007-09-18 02:39:11 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Its a paradoxical sentence.
And a big exclamation.
The humble man does not use those words, even if he knew God.
For he knows, he can never fully know God, that would be like the limited, knowing the infinite.
How can the limited, know the infinite?
2007-09-18 02:45:12 · answer #1 · answered by Antares 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That IS the humbelest experience of all.
It's like when you see the whole of nature
and how great it is - it is even more so
than that!
It is the only way we have a chance to
be humble and put things into perspective.
Some are prideful before others in their religion,
in thinking they know everything, but atheists
do this too - it is more of a human thing.
Knowledge = power (and pride)
wisdom = perspective (and humility)
love = purpose (and redemption)
We don't just need knowledge, we need
wisdom, understanding, and, most
importantly, love!
Jesus spoke out against those who
were religious and were prideful.
That is not the point at all!
2007-09-18 09:54:15 · answer #2 · answered by Nickel-for-your-thoughts 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, it's not possible to be humble and say I know God. Humility comes when you realize that God knows YOU and loves you anyway.
2007-09-18 09:50:51 · answer #3 · answered by Kay3535 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I never thought about that before, but you know -- it's really not.
A person who says "I honestly know God" is exhibiting what the Greeks used to call hubris -- arrogance and pride. I think that is what annoys me so much about the fundamentalists. They want you to think that they know everything there is to know about God. It's like your beliefs are nothing to the fundamentalists I've met. You're supposed to just chuck them out the window in deference to their supposed spiritual and intellectual superiority.
The only way you could possibly have a shred of humility -- which is just the knowledge of who you really are and who God really is -- it so know that whatever picture or idea you have of God in your head is wrong. God will always be bigger and greater and infinitely more loving that our thoughts about Him.
God is infinite and our minds are finite. So we can never know God completely while we're on the earth. The humble man will say "I know something about God, but I realize that I don't know everything." That is probably the bedrock of any mature spiritual faith.
Very good question, man.
2007-09-18 09:44:21 · answer #4 · answered by Acorn 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Is it possible to humble when you proclaim you are made in God's image, that you are following the one true faith, that you are chosen by God, that you are righteous, that you are more moral than other people, and that everyone else is sinful and wrong? Sounds humble to me!
2007-09-18 09:45:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Can you stand and look into the night sky and acknowledge the wonder of the Universe? And yet you will never fully understand or experience it all for it is larger and greater than you. Could you not likewise do so while standing before the Ocean? A seafaring man could spend his life on the seas and say "I know the sea" and yet never had experienced all of its wonders or depths for it is larger and greater than him. Yet that very knowledge humbles us for it acknowledges our very limitations.
Knowing God is not different.
I can walk to the ocean and fill a bucket with its essence. I will never get all of the ocean into the bucket, but the bucket will be filled by the ocean. I likewise can approach God and be filled by him and his presence, but I will never full grasp or contain Him - I being finite and He being infinite. I may know of Him what my nature permits, and by what He reveals, but I will never fully grasp or contain Him. It humbles me. but know Him, I do.
2007-09-18 09:57:07 · answer #6 · answered by X 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never thought of that but I do know Him because of what His words says...the words Jesus said if you have seen me you have seen the Father....why wouldn't I know Him then...I know the actions of Jesus because I desire to be like Him...as a child looks up to their Fleshly Father I look to mine with desiring to know Him...Seek and you shall find He says Knock and the door will be opened...He doesn't just say that to be saying it,,He said run to me and you will find everything you are looking for in Him...I know my Father because I seek Him with my whole heart...I am humble in His presence...God is all knowing,awesome and loving...I am nothing without Him...
2007-09-18 11:30:24 · answer #7 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humility is simply being honest about one's self.
If I say "I know Jack", then that is simply true, because Jack is my friend. It is not bragging.
Of course, there are various levels of knowing. I didn't mean by that last statement that I know everything about Jack, but it would not be honest, or all that humble, to pretend that I therefore know nothing. That would not be true, either.
2007-09-18 09:49:16 · answer #8 · answered by Ned F 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When one knows God, words spoken have no value.
Words have a value only in worldly context.
2007-09-18 09:47:23 · answer #9 · answered by dd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can.
If you know God (have been in His presence), you will at some point feel how great, powerful, loving, pure......He is.
You will then feel how obscure, weak, unloving, sinful....you are.
You will be able to happily tell others of knowing God but you will not be able to say it boastfully because you know you know Him not because who or what you have done, but because He loves you despite what you have done.
2007-09-18 10:05:57 · answer #10 · answered by tim 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋