Mankind has always tried to know
its deity. It always tried to fully understand God. Not knowing or not
understanding his will means, for some, that He does not exist. However, how
wise would it be if we understood that we will not understand Him? God is above
knowledge. This notion, fully understood, will liberate our thought and allow
for faith to show the path we should take. St John Damascene explains the fact
that God is above knowledge, claiming:
‘God, then, is infinite and
incomprehensible, and all that is comprehensible about Him is His infinity and
incomprehensibility. All that we can say cataphatically concerning God does not
show forth His nature but the things that relate to His nature . . . . God does
not belong to the class of existing things: not that He has no existence, but
that He is above all existing things, nay even above existence itself. For it
all forms of knowledge have to do with what exists, assuredly that which is
above knowledge must certainly be also above essence; and, conversely, that
which is above essence will also be above knowledge.’[1]
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