Sunday, October 07, 2007

Incomprehensiblity and Calculus

It seems that I have explained the calculus of the trinity, if you will, in the last post. I barely scratched the surface of who God is. There are parts that are understandable with difficulty. I tried to be clear on those. There are also parts that are too impossible to understand because God is beyond us.

Lets look at different dimensions. How does a 3D creature explain a 4D universe? Or rather How do we treat our existance time? With much difficulty and not with time's full meaning. We see a bunch of moments in time, rather than time itself. We try to fit slices of time on top of each other (in differential elements for you engineers). So we see multiple layers of our 3D universe and understanding rather than a 4D one. This is the calculus. We may understand parts of the 4D universe but we will never know what it is really like or its real internal workings.

We may understand parts of God but never fully. He is holy. He is transcendantly set apart. We are but creatures that exist on but a slice of His power, wisdom, and understanding. In him we have our being. We cannot fully understand or extend our existance back to Him. Christ manages to describe God in our universe but even he cannot be known by flesh and blood. A complete understanding of Christ is beyond us for He is also God. What we do know; He has had to reveal to us. Yet, this simplified equation that governs, the integration of Who God is, pieced together by slices, hardly describes the totality of God. For God has no bounds. It leads to a general solution that leaves out details. God is incomprehensible. This does not mean God is totally unknowable, rather He cannot be known fully or rightly. He can only be abstracted by what He reveals himself to be. He rightly says to Moses in describing himself, "I AM WHO I AM". Being that this definition is outside a stack of mere principles rather about real substance; within an incomprehensible statement.

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