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=The unknowable God...=
Did that title disturb you in the least? It has been such a common phrase used in and outside of the church that we rarely give it a thought. Everyone knows that God is unknowable. We don't flinch at the thought of God being unknowable, but we flinch at the accusation we would fight over the unknowable:
The accusation makes us flinch while subtly we embrace the forced idea, like a magician forcing upon us, the card he wants us to have. The intellectual sleight of hand distracts us from recognizing the same old challenge of the serpent: ''Did God really say? (Ge 3) Did you really hear him right? Did you understand? Certainly your reason is better than your hearing or memory.''
=God is knowable <ref>If you are paying close attention, you may wish to cry, "Foul!". You may observe that it appears that I am using the Bible as fact when I haven't proven it to be fact. If this were the proof section of the presentation, it would be cheating, but we are still in the introduction.</ref> =
'''But God said:'''
:''[[Isa 43:10]] Ye are my witnesses, '''saith the LORD''', and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may '''know''' and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.''
<font face:''[[Joh 17:3]] And this is life eternal, that they might '''know''' thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.'' :''[[Ro 1:19]] ¶ Because that which may be '''known''' of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.'' ="TimesNewRoman" sizeThe scoffer plays semantic games=2>There is a huge difference between honest questions and scoffer questions. The scoffer has already decided the matter and asks questions designed to confuse. The scoffer redefines words on the fly pretending that words have only one meaning and that he is the arbiter of that meaning. The scoffer would ask "If you are paying close attention, you may wish to crywe can know everything about God, doesn't that make us omniscient?". The confusion is introduced with the conditional clause beginning with "Foul!if". You may observe We did not make the claim that it appears that I am using the Bible as fact we can know everything about God. The scoffer, when confronted acts hurt. "I havendidn't proven say we could, I just proposed the question, 'If we can...'". OK, then it is a stupid question. It has no relevance to be factthe conversation. <ref>Despite what your preschool teacher told you; There are stupid questions. Paul warns us against them: [[Tit 3:9]] But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. </ref> If this were we allowed the scoffer's question to stand, those not following closely would buy the concept forced <ref>As a magician forcing a card</ref> upon him. When you claim to know your neighbor, you do not claim to know everything about him, or that you could know everything about him. You claim to know him well enough to make the proof section claim that you know him. What can be known about God is of the presentationa more sure nature than what you can know about your neighbor, since it would is God himself, who makes himself known. <ref>[[Ro 1:19]] ¶ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in fact be cheating, but them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.</ref> ''If we are to KNOW that he is God; If we are to KNOW that the Bible is his word; If we are still to KNOW his will; '''We must know it in the introductiona way that he makes it known'''.'' Next: [[TYMK - Making himself known]] =References=<references/>
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