God’s Attribute of Incomprehensibility
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- When we start to look at the attributes of deity, remembering that these are attributes that God alone possesses, the first attribute we always want to look at is the attribute of incomprehensibility.
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- Incomprehensibility means that God's nature is impossible to fully comprehend.
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- Though man can know about God, we cannot know Him fully. We can only know what
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- He reveals to us. Man needs not to know everything there is to know about God in a complete sense, but what
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- He reveals to us we can know with certainty. We have several passages of Scripture that we can look to to see this.
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- One of the ones I use the most often is Deuteronomy 29 .29. The secret things belong unto the
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- Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and our children forever that we may do the words of the law.
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- We also can see in Isaiah 55, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways.
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- We end up seeing over and over again that God is above us, that we cannot comprehend the things of God.
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- That should not cause us to be in fear, that should cause us to be in reverence that He is greater than us, knows more than us, is better than us in every way.
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- Though we don't know Him perfectly and completely, there are things that will be a mystery to us, but that which
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- He has revealed to us, that we can study, that we can know that we have the thoughts that God wants us to know about Him.