The first Bible study: God is truly incomprehensible!

While in small groups for the first night, we discuss the fact that God is truly incomprehensible to our human minds. It hurts to even think about it, right? While God’s image and glory is so unfathomable that we cannot begin to understand the fullness of His characteristics in human terms, we would shudder at even a hint of His Presence. For instance, Elijah could only encounter just the back of God within his own cognitive human mind because the power of God’s Full Glory is incomprehensible for human eyes to gaze upon. It may even be hard as you read to comprehend what I am talking about. Many of our theological thoughts are based on conversational perspectives that we hear when in reality we often rarely cite the Word directly to draw upon the characteristics of God. Citing God’s Word directly and accurately is imperative to our witness and example to others. When we cannot think of the verse, we tend to recall and remember as best as possible how some verse in some book says this, I think. Or how often do you hear people say. “The Bible says…”? Where does the Bible say what? If you are going to claim authority in the Word, then do so convincingly. Do so with conviction. As a professor might say, know what you are talking about before you talk about it. Your knowledge of the Bible reflects God’s knowledge to other people. These were some random discussion tidbits that came up tonight when in the first session of small groups.