You can know what God is like
Footnotes
Some Christians believe that God can’t be known. Like Job’s friend Elihu, they believe that God’s greatness requires him to be unknowable,1 not realizing that his ability and desire to make himself known to such lowly creatures as ourselves2 ranks chief among what makes him the greatest of all.
God can be known. Coming to know him is a process. The Lord defined eternal life as knowing God,3 not just showing that it is possible to know him, but showing that the very process of coming to know him is eternal life. As you learn more about him and live everything you know, you will increasingly know him and increasingly obtain eternal life.4
Footnotes
- 1. Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. (Job 36:26) ↩
- 2. And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of his goodness and have tasted of his love, and have received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceedingly great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your own nothingness, and his goodness and long-suffering towards you, unworthy creatures, and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily, and standing steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come, which was spoken by the mouth of the angel. (Mosiah 4:11) ↩
- 3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John 17:3) ↩
- 4. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. (1 John 5:20) ↩