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Sep 11, 2019 · If we misunderstand the doctrine of God's incomprehensibility, we can easily slide into two serious errors. The first error says that since God is incomprehensible, He must be utterly unknowable, and anything we say about God is gibberish.
God is beyond our full comprehension and description. However, this does not entail that God is unintelligible. God’s incomprehensibility is best understood in the sense that he is unfathomable. As the triune God, his being is independent, self-sufficient, and simple, and thus unfathomable.
Jan 20, 2024 · In this episode, we continue examining the WLC Q7 by studying God's incomprehensibility and omnipresence (1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 139:1-13).
- The Incomprehensibility of God
- Why God Is Incomprehensible
- Implications of God’s Incomprehensibility
- The Knowability of God
- Implications of The Knowability of God
Scripture teaches that we can have a true and personal knowledge of God, but this does not mean we will ever understand him exhaustively. The Bible is clear that God is ultimately incomprehensible to us; that is, we can never fully comprehend his whole being. The following passages show this: These verses teach that not only is God’s whole being in...
The main reasons for God’s incomprehensibility are: 1. God is infinite and his creatures are finite. By definition, creatures depend on their Creator for their very existence and are limited in all aspects. Yet God is without limitations in every quality he possesses. This Creator/creature, infinite/finite gap will always exist. 2. The perfect unit...
Because God can never be fully known, those who seek to know God should be deeply humbled in the process, realizing that they will always have more to learn. The appropriate response to God is a heart of wonder and awe in light of his incomprehensible greatness. God’s incomprehensibility also means that beliefs can be held with firm conviction even...
The incomprehensibility of God could lead to despair or apathy in the quest to know God, but the Bible also teaches that God is knowable. While God can never be exhaustively understood, he can be known truly, personally, and sufficiently. God is personal, has definite characteristics, and has personally revealed himself so that he can be truly know...
God’s personal and sufficient revelation of himself should foster solid conviction among believers. We need not live in ambiguity and uncertainty about who God is and what he demands of his creatures. The increasing influence of Eastern religions on the West, certain postmodern views of truth, and religious pluralism all emphasize God’s incomprehen...
Nov 11, 2022 · God transcends our highest thoughts of Him, but that doesn’t mean He contradicts logic. Today, R.C. Sproul carefully distinguishes between God’s incomprehensibility and the irrational.
Dec 2, 2023 · The Christian fundamentally has a different view of God's incomprehensibility, and it is only that Christian view of incomprehensibility that can save objective knowledge of God.
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Mar 19, 2014 · What, then, is the reason for God’s incomprehensibility? It chiefly rooted in the infinity of God’s being. John Owen explains this ontological basis for the doctrine: God, in his own essence, being, and existence, is absolutely incomprehensible.
