If you can't understand, or explain or "know" God, then why worship it?

Question

If we puny humans are too frail and limited in our capicity to comprehend "God" then why would this inconcievably incomprehensible being hold us to account??

Does living a "Christ like life" end in crucifixion?

Answer 1

Because by some chance...he might just reward us for eternity if we grovel hard enough.

Answer 2

I do know God. I can't understand everything about God. Maybe that's why He is God and I'm not. How can a person explain and understand something like that 100%? Can you fully understand and explain the atom? Can you fully explain how and why things like the human eye, liver, brain, work as they do? As for the crucifixion. No. The crucifixion is why Christ came to earth. No crucifixon=no forgiveness and no eternal life. If a person doesn't have to be held into account for his/her actions means there would be no laws and no rules. If people were accountable to no one and nothing-what kind of world would this be? And we think things are bad now?? PS -God is not an "it"

Answer 3

If I may, you're mixing two historically separate strands of Christian thought: Eastern and Western. The premise of your question is a pretty good summary of Eastern thought - the problem of human limitations in the face of an infinite God. Being "held to account" is a distinctively Western idea - the idea that our relationship with God is defined by Justice vs Mercy, Sin vs Righteousness, etc; the "legal" model of Christianity. Western Christianity, then, has been preoccupied with the idea of atonement, of making us "right" with God. Eastern Christianity, on the other hand, has been focused on the idea of "Christlikeness" (a western term for the eastern idea of deification). In Eastern Christianity, the focus is on how humans can become more like God through Christ.

I think the two strands balance each other out, in a way. But you can't apply the conclusions of one to the premises of the other; it won't make any kind of sense.

Peace to you.

EDIT: Living a Christ-like life will definitely end in crucifixion, whether literal or symbolic. Christ's call to discipleship was embodied in the phrase, "If anyone would come after me, let them take up their cross daily..."

Answer 4

Just because we can't fully understand God, because we do not have unlimited mental capacity, does not mean that God cannot work in people's lives and by the Holy Spirit and reading His holy word how glorious, powerful, loving, all-knowing, just, righteous, and other attributes that He is.

Replying to does "Living a Christ-like life end in persecution"
First off, no person other than Lord Jesus has lived a sinless life like Him. So all people have fallen short of that sinless standard.

Second, Well Lord Jesus did warn that the world hated Him, and the world will hate followers of Christ. As well that Christians are to carry our cross and follow Him that Christians should be willing to suffer persecution in His name. Although this does not necessarily mean that every Christian will die by crucifiction, or by some form of persecution for being a Christian.

Answer 5

We can Know God, and understand what God is telling us, and I have alot to be thanking God for right now, my life has done 180 degree turn, I am not the same person, people put me down because they think I am someone that thinks they are better than everyone else, or shoving something down thier throat, when in all honesty I was in the same position, I didn't understand this, I did not want to listen, I had my way, and lived a terrible life, but now God has shown me the truth, and I want to share it, because there are too many people out there that think they have to live in a world of hurt, when they don't and God loves them, they just have to come forward, there are people who have addictions, who have troubled marriages, who don't know where to turn, God is always waiting, always ready. we do not have to be lost.

Answer 6

Can a two year explain or understand their parents? But a two year obeys and trust their parents to feed clothe shelter love them. Give them rules to keep them safe. A two year old knows instintively that they are loved and listen most of the time to their parents and follow the rules so the parents could see two year growing and learning to be part of greater picture which the two year old does not understand. When that two year old grows up one day understand the wisdom of his parents. Hold them in high regard and even worship in his heart the love he recieve from his parents. Come to God as a little child..

Answer 7

As scientific discovery leads to better understanding of the world consider this:

Every cell in your body contains DNA. From any cell a whole "You" could be re-created. Yet if you were to "interview" any cell, it could tell you only about his immediate purpose and that of its nearest neighbors. A hair on your arm could tell you nothing about an eye, or a brain.

Yet inside each and every cell is the absolute knowledge of everything you are. It's helped me to think about Man's relation to God this way. Each one of us contains the knowledge of Him (or Her or It you like), but can't explain exactly how we fit in. Yet the Body is intimately conscious and concerned with each and every one of us, just as you are of each and every one of your cells. You care for and maintain them all. It is your nature. Then things that seem beyond our personal understanding, such as pain or even death, can be seen to have purpose.

"God created Man in His Image." So we expect God to look like a man. Who knows? To God's eye, you may look like a star, or a whole Universe. The problem, I think, is not that God is less than you think, but that you are more.

As for the crucifixion, read Psalm 22, written 1000 years earlier, and consider the implications of what is said there. Miraculous or Supernatural: decide for yourself.

Answer 8

I understand God, He gave us a book to read.
I don't need to explain God, look around, He is everywhere....
AND I know God.....I feel Him, talk to Him...everyday.

He is just that GOD, and we are not question Him....He is the creator, we are the creation...

And no living a Christ like life does not end in crucifixion, He already did that for us.....
It ends in Happiness.

Answer 9

God Almighty is Creator of every thing in universes including universe it self and we are also one of His Creation in this universe.
If we try to explain who is God and how He looks like we will explain with our limitations and will visualize as per our limited vision and short approach.

Let find out how God Himself tells us who is He.
Al-Qura'n :
112:1 Say: He is Allah, the One and Only;
112:2 Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;
112:3 He begetteth not, nor is He begotten;
112:4 And there is none like unto Him.

Isiah 46:9
Remember the bformer things of old: for
I am God, and there is none else;
I am God, and there is none like me,

Answer 10

Ever since God became man, it became possible for man to know and love God ... and that remains the primary purpose of our human existence.

The key to that understanding is a lifetime of full and active participation in all of the work, worship, sacraments, and devotions of the only church Jesus ever founded, for the purpose of our salvation.

Answer 11

Despite not completely comprehending "God" I know he created us and everything there is. And know what he stands for. He is the Love we humans talk about, sing about, hear about but that pretty much nobody can fully understand