For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.
My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.