Knowing Deity

Why it is impossible to know Deity from human initiative alone is a matter of scale. One aspect of Deity in most religious contexts is that Deity has created the entire universe. Our current knowledge of the universe and its unimaginable power and complexity has in the past few decades expanded extraordinarily from its enormous cosmological nature to its minuscule subatomic nature.

To understand the impossibility of fully comprehending Deity from the human viewpoint you would need to attempt a comparison with something from a scale small enough for us to grasp.

The correlation might be like that of an amoeba or germ attempting to comprehend a human being. An amoeba might live its entire life within the human environment but will never have any real comprehension of what a human being actually is. Likewise, any thought of knowing Deity entirely from the human perspective is ludicrous.

Comprehension for an amoeba must come entirely from the human. The amoeba is so infinitesimally incapable to see beyond its borders that it cannot even fathom human existence. In contrast, the human is aware of the amoeba and has developed many tools to understand a great deal about the amoeba. The only way for an amoeba to become aware of a human would require humans to somehow initiate contact within the environment of the amoeba. This of course seems so ludicrous and ridiculous that no sane person would even consider it a worthwhile endeavor.

Hopefully this example has helped give you an idea as to what is required for us to ever have a chance at an understanding of Deity. The action must come from Deity because we can never cross what for us is an infinite chasm.

Therefore, we can conclude that:  the information or knowledge we have of Deity can only be a result of what Deity has allowed.