Since man is finite and God must be infinite can the finite man understand the Infinite God?
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:7-8.
DIFFERENT
God's thoughts and ways are not ours; they are so different that there is no comparison. If we use our ways to try to understand His ways we will miss the mark.
HIGHER
To say God's ways are higher suggests so many things...
* His ways are nobler.
* More righteous.
* More holy.
* Wiser.
* Purer.
* More purposeful.
If God's ways are different and higher we must not apply our standards and logic to him, because no matter how lofty we are we will still fall short.
CAN WE KNOW?
If a man is to know God then it is not on the basis of man's discovery of Him but on the basis of God's revealing of himself to man. Since man, the finite, cannot make himself infinite so we cannot become capable of knowing God, therefore the Infinite God must become finite, (God must be able to become finite or else he is not truly infinite.)
DID GOD?
God has spoken to mankind, the Bible says, "In the past, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the universe. The son is the radiance of God's glory, and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he provided purification for sins he sat down at the right hand of the majesty in heaven." Hebrews 1:1-3
We can understand God because he came to us in the flesh and as Christ, he did what we could not do so that through Christ we can know the Father.
To learn more about coming to God through Christ see the tab above titled Salvation.
(c) Adron 12/31/13
