People in the “know” always tell us that “we can’t understand the nature of God”. That God is unknowable, that the infiniteness of God is beyond our “finite” minds.

“But, while the nature of THE ALL is Unknowable, there are certain truths connected with its existence which the human mind finds itself compelled to accept.” The Three Initiates

According to the Gospels (the Biblical books Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), Jesus spent a good part of his ministry trying to get people just like us (with closed minds and feet of clay) to open up their thinking and soar to knew heights. He came up with some great stories (scholars call ’em parables) to illustrate the nature of God and the Kingdom of Heaven using the sort of common, everyday stuff our little brains can handle.

There’s also another tool we can use to “understand” the Unknowable. It’s got a fancy name – “intuitive reasoning” – but it works along the same lines as Jesus’ parables. There are some things that we intuitively know must be true – even when there’s no way anybody can prove ’em. For instance:

1. God is All Powerful (Omnipotent) There can’t be anything (or anybody) more powerful than God… period. Gotta be true – no question about it.

   Now, this also means there can’t be any kind of power that isn’t God’s power ’cause – think about it – if you had power to do stuff outside of God’s power then it would mean you could do something God could not control. You’d have power “over” God which we’ve just figured out is a no-no.

2. God is All Knowing (Omniscient) God has got to know everything there is to know.  If there was stuff God didn’t know then God would be ignorant – and I think we can all agree that ignorance is not a particularly godly trait. So, by definition, God can’t be “surprised” by stuff ’cause that would constitute a “revelation” and there isn’t anything that God doesn’t know that can be revealed.

   Also, God must know everything that has happened (past), that is happening (present), and that will happen (future). If God didn’t know the “future”, future events would come as a surprise or a revelation to God which, as before, we’ve determined is not an option.

3. God is Everywhere and Eternal (Omnipresent) God has to be everywhere because there can’t be anything that can limit, restrict, define, disturb, or condition God.

   If there was something that could do any of those things, that something would have power outside of God and we’d be in conflict with intuitive rule #1 – the All Powerful nature of God.God also has to be Eternal – everlasting – with no end.  God won’t have beginning either, ’cause if there’s a “before God”, that would limit God by time, restricting God’s power and God’s presence, and yet again breaking the first rule of the All Powerful-ness of God.

So there you have it – the nature of God:  All Powerful, All Knowing, Everywhere in space and time.

So?

Well, check out this next one… Sinful Perfection