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notes, "Theologically speaking, to say God is incomprehensible is not to say that God is utterly unknowable. It is to say that none of us can comprehend God exhaustively."
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confess "the Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible" as a translation of the Latin
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argues that the issue there was the relationship between human knowledge and divine knowledge, rather than human knowledge and the
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says "his understanding no one can fathom". Most theologians will balance this by saying that God is able to be known in some ways.
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Protestant theologians are usually quick to clarify that we are able to know God, since God reveals himself to us.
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Divine incomprehensibility was said to be a point of conflict in the
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Index

Abrahamic religions
God
fully known
Isaiah 40:28
Attributes of God
in Christianity


Omnibenevolence
Omnipotence
Omnipresence
Omniscience
Eternity
Aseity
Oneness
Perfection
Trinity
Graciousness
Holiness
Immanence
Immutability
Impassibility
Impeccability
Incomprehensibility
Incorporeality
Kingship
Mission
Providence
Righteousness
Simplicity
Sovereignty
Transcendence

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