Do We Know God... really?

I've often wondered how so many of us think we know GOD so well. Moses said to the LORD in Exodus 33:13 even after leading Israel out of Egypt, "...shew me now thy way, that I may know thee..." The apostle Paul said in Philippians 3:10, "That I may know him", denoting that after years of serving Christ he was still learning about him even though he was a master teacher. Are we so arrogant to think we really know GOD?

Do we know more about GOD than Moses who knew him face to face to where GOD's law was known as "the law of Moses"? Do we know more than Paul whom the LORD personally chose for his glory to write nearly half of the New Testament? According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration it is estimated that 88 percent of our oceans are unexplored and unobserved. That number is well beyond 99 percent when speaking of our galaxy.

1st KINGS 8:27; "But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?"

In light of this scientific fact it is absolutely absurd for finite mankind to assume they know the infinite Creator of ourselves, the universe, and the Earth we live on as if we have a perfect understanding. It is also asinine for anyone to be an atheist in abject denial of GOD's existence and put their trust in Science to explain the unexplainable or unexplored. We know in part, and our part is very small in comparison to the whole.

1st CORINTHIANS 13:12; "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

Believers in GOD can only at best attempt to define the majesty, glory, omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence of the Supreme eternal Sovereign of all creation with words that still miserably fall short of his divine being. Whether you define the Godhead with extra-Biblical terms such as "Trinity" or proclaim his triune person as "Oneness" it is still a feeble attempt to describe one who is deeper than any Ocean and far beyond the bounds of space itself.

ACTS 17:29; "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device."

This truth behooves us to withdraw from all sanctimonious declarations of others as heretics for not accepting our view of the Godhead when their view may also line up with the Scriptures versus our own narrow interpretation of the Bible. Many of us don't even know how far our family tree extends; yet we're audacious enough to think we know GOD? The Most High is so awesome that even when the Scriptures declares his person and explains what he's done it still calls godliness a great mystery.

1st TIMOTHY 3:16; "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory."

The Body of Christ is under the headship of Yeshua HaMaschiach aka Jesus Christ. When we're at odds with each other as we have been then we are in a state of disarray and disunity akin to an epileptic seizure where the Body no longer obeys the head but attempts to do it's own thing. If you think God Almighty is only dealing with you or your group based on what you think you know then you prove you don't know Him. We still have a lot to learn. ~ I.J. West

1st CORINTHIANS 1:26-29; "For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27) But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28) God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29) so that no human being might boast in the presence of God."