July 19, 2013
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Understanding The True Nature of God
A friend posted that someone he knew stated they love God but not Man’s interpretation of God. This brought about a discussion of whether a person can receive a direct revelation from God, and whether God can reveal his true nature to a human being. I said no human being can ever know the answers to those questions, for the following reasons:
No human being can ever know if a “revelation from God” to a human being is being accurately understood or relayed, because the person who says they received said revelation has to interpret it using his or her human brain.
No human can ever say with 100% certainty that God has revealed His true nature, for that same reason. Even the determination that the event was an interaction with God, or that a given entity is God, is a human interpretation of what happened. Everything we see, hear, feel and think is filtered through the human brain.
I challenge anyone to tell me they understand the true nature of God, or of anything for that matter, without involving human interpretation.
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That is exactly the problem. I do understand the true nature of God, but am unable to explain it. As soon as I try to think of words, the complexity of it all, transcribing it into a chain of linear thought it becomes overwhelming. I guess the best way to describe it is with simple words, like Stars, Birth, Death… Anything more than that places limits on the understanding.
Like a Rorschach Test.