Sermon Tone Analysis

Impossible to comprehend.

Though man can know God, God cannot be fully known.

Man needs not to know God completely to know Him certainly.

Deuteronomy 29:29; Psalm 145:3; 1 Corinthians 2:11; Romans 11:33–34; Job 36:26

His essence, indeed, is incomprehensible, utterly transcending all human thought; but on each of his works his glory is engraven in characters so bright, so distinct, and so illustrious, that none, however dull and illiterate, can plead ignorance as their excuse.

In attestation of his wondrous wisdom, both the heavens and the earth present us with innumerable proofs not only those more recondite proofs which astronomy, medicine, and all the natural sciences, are designed to illustrate, but proofs which force themselves on the notice of the most illiterate peasant, who cannot open his eyes without beholding them.

It is true, indeed, that those who are more or less intimately acquainted with those liberal studies are thereby assisted and enabled to obtain a deeper insight into the secret workings of divine wisdom.

Still, none who have the use of their eyes can be ignorant of the divine skill manifested so conspicuously in the endless variety, yet distinct and well ordered array, of the heavenly host; and, therefore, it is plain that the Lord has furnished every man with abundant proofs of his wisdom.

The Danger of Ignoring God’s Incomprehensibility

The Argument of Islam and others

The Danger of Ignoring God’s Incomprehensibility

The Life of Job

In the quest to know God, it is vital to understand just what it means to really know him.

Methods, expectations, and attitudes in studying theology are determined by one’s definition of “knowing God.” Central to understanding this is the fact that God is both incomprehensible and knowable.