Incomprehensible

Notes

“What is God like?” If by that question we mean “What is God like in Himself?” there is no answer. If we mean “What has God disclosed about Himself that the reverent reason can comprehend?” there is, I believe, an answer both full and satisfying. For while the name of God is secret and His essential nature incomprehensible, He in condescending love has by revelation declared certain things to be true of Himself. These we call His attributes.

Tozer, A. W. The Knowledge of the Holy. Grapevine India, 2022., Ch 2

What can we know about God? That’s the most basic question of theology, for what we can know about God and whether we can know anything about Him at all determine the scope and content of our study. Here we must consider the teaching of the greatest theologians in history, all of whom have affirmed the “incomprehensibility of God.” By using the term incomprehensible, they are not referring to something we are unable to comprehend or know at all. Theologically speaking, to say God is incomprehensible is not to say that God is utterly unknowable. It is to say that none of us can comprehend God exhaustively.

Sproul, R. C. “God Is Incomprehensible,” October 2022. https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/god-incomprehensible., Para. 1

Bible References

[7] “Can you find out the deep things of God?
    Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
    [8] It is higher than heaven—what can you do?
    Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
    [9] Its measure is longer than the earth
    and broader than the sea. (Job 11:7-9 ESV)

[27] All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. (Matthew 11:27 ESV)

[15] which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, [16] who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. (1 Timothy 6:15-16 ESV)