Ezekiel Kimosop Supporter

Can We Fully Understand God? 

My view is that we cannot exhaustively understand God but we can sufficiently understand Him through the revelation of Scripture. Scripture should sufficiently guide us in our knowledge of Him and His divine will for us under our covenant relationship with Jesus Christ. 

The God of Scripture is incomprehensible to our finite minds yet He has chosen to reveal aspects of His divine nature to us through the word of God. Isaiah 55:8-9 says: "For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts." (NKJV). 

When Job lamented about his pain and affliction, God revealed Himself to Him in his moment of desperation. Job 38:1-40:2 conveys powerful theological questions that God posed to His servant. Job was left dumbfounded in the end. His response in Job 39:3-5 reveals that Job was confounded and utterly saturated by the rhetorical questions. Here is his reply to God:

"Then Job answered the Lord and said:

4 “Behold, I am vile;
What shall I answer You?
I lay my hand over my mouth.
5 Once I have spoken, but I will not answer;
Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.” (NKJV). 

Job was confronted with the incomprehensibility of God's sovereign power and glory. Job's experience teaches us that we cannot engage the God of Scripture on a Q & A on equal terms. He is sovereign, we are not. He is the Alpha and Omega. 

Some New Testament Scriptures illustrate God's incomprehensibility. There are aspects of His divinity and the essence of the life to come that God has concealed from us until we appear before His presence in heaven. 

1 John 3:2 says "Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure." (NKJV). 

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 says "Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away." (NKJV). 

This text of Scripture affirms some aspects of the divine incomprehensibility phenomenon in the context of God's revelation of Himself in Scripture.

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