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:

“It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.”

― E. Haldeman-Julius (a guy with a black and white photo on the internet, so it must be true.)

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.

Is knowable ^[1]

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.

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.

References

1. ↑ 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.