do you think our minds could ever grasp (with any degree of success) the reality of god? i hope our god isn't simple enough that we could describe him in a book.
what is your faith and how are you sure the brains of your faith have encompassed the nature of god?
2007-11-19 15:02:15 · 22 answers · asked by Jeff S Phoenix_AM 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I often think of this and I honestly think that the fathoming of that supreme entity is beyond any human's grasp...
even words like understand, feel, or touch do not apply here.
It would be like trying to "understand" a realm of infinite dimensions.
Top mathematicians I believe have not been able to go beyond 13 dimensions and human thinking (without mathematical tools) can not transcend 4 dimensions if I'm not mistaken (any experts out there?)
Many believers don't even attempt to understand the great mystery.
Depending on the person, they either follow the dogma or rely on what their heart tells them when setting their conduct.
2007-11-19 15:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion we tend to want everything that we look up too to be over 20ft and bullet proof. Then when we learn the truth about them and/ or get to know them they are never what we expected and in some cause no where near the person that we thought they where. What if god's only ability was that she/he learned how to work the existing universe and in fact was able to manipulate it enough to go back in time and lay claim on everything or She/he was able to like salvage the human race some type of way after we destructed ourselves? Would you still see god as a mysterious being that encompassed a nature beyond our understanding? No one ever takes in account that when this god officially came about it was in a simple and gullible time as far as human beings where concerned. No one takes in account that every culture had a god or goddess of some kind at that time and part of the price for losing a war or a battle was that you in essence did not have a very strong deity on your side. In fact if anything happened good or bad to you it was due to how that local deity felt about you or your family and what you did for or too them. Imagine a world where a child born with two heads is worshiped because they are rare and surely must have magic beyond belief to have been born? It is nice you chose to see magic and mystery in the world still, I still see those things too but from a different angle and my journey has just begun and I will not stop cause I am not satisfied with just what others left me to believe.
I would understand that she or he would be a desire pure and simple to regulate a scared world.
2007-11-19 23:28:02 · answer #2 · answered by calmlikeatimebomb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There IS a God and I DON'T understand Him.
How could I? If you consider that what the Bible says is true, how could we possibly encompass everything there is to know about God? I can barely balance my checkbook, He's the creator of the universe.
2007-11-19 23:08:46 · answer #3 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we can understand God for he's able to relate himself to us; what is not actually fathomable, and that's the amount of stuff that is really not fathomable, will be eventuall discovered in eternity. WE can know God. EVERYONE. Still... describing him in words will always be crude, ineffective to many minds; one dimensional, lacking in wisdom, lacking in truth and full of error. Time and space conditioned physical beings that we are, there is no way to relate things of the infinite and eternal spirit in entirety; it's only partial and it's only a milllichip.
2007-11-19 23:18:07 · answer #4 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did say, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, and My ways are not your ways." However, God also tried to reveal His thoughts to us - dreams, visions, prophets, through His Son who became flesh, from His Holy Spirit,a nd through His church.
We cannot grasp all, but God will make us understand things that will benefit our spiritural growth. We may not fully understand the things that are happening around us but God would somehow comfort us and give us assurance that He is in control and all these terrible things will change for the better.
2007-11-19 23:11:15 · answer #5 · answered by paulyaranon007 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The God Yahweh speaks in a language that the whole world understands and that language is science.
2007-11-19 23:10:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started to read the Bible 3 months ago. I am reading it cover-to-cover. It's weird and I cannot explain it, but I am understanding more about God and his awesome power than ever before. I know It is something that really cannot be intellectualized.
2007-11-19 23:07:46 · answer #7 · answered by tin woman 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ was God manifested in the flesh. He was just a "regular joe" anybody could understand. I'm Apostolic(oneness pentecostal). The Bible is purposely written plainly so everybody can understand it.
2007-11-19 23:09:01 · answer #8 · answered by paula r 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No man nor every man could ever imagine the depth and beauty of the Lord.
2007-11-19 23:07:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
In the flesh... in our current temporal form: No..
Transcend that with life after death.... and we might have a chance.
2007-11-19 23:16:56 · answer #10 · answered by asgodintended 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋