To Christians (and philosophers) who believe that God is way way way way way beyond human understanding....??

Question

Is it true then that: Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent????

(Yes it's been a while but conceptual chess continues....check!)

Answer 1

If someone can't speak they will have to express their beliefs in some other way. Painting, writing, sign language, etc. Your question makes my brain hurt. You win this game of conceptual chess.

Answer 2

you can never fully understand God, but observing human nature does help you to see what he is like. i do not pretend to understand him, or his timing. to a point all humans end up depending on him consciously or no. when you cant speak, who says you must be silent? speaking is a subjective thing, but if we're talking vocal, that is not the only form of speech available to mankind, speech exists in far more forms than vocal, silence is also subjective, so no, the fact that you cannot speak doesnt mean that you are or must be silent, ways can be found around everything.

Answer 3

I can't speak for everyone, but while I don't pretend to know or understand God, I do know him by the things he's done in my life.  I would say and through what he's done in the lives of the people I know, but God is way too personal for even that.  God didn't change me through what he did to others, he changed me internally, from the heart outward. It is there that my understanding of him comes. Not his complete being, just part of him that lives within me.  Beyond that I know nothing.

Answer 4

Who is to say one cannot speak of what they do not understand...it is my belief that philosophy has no answers and no teachers merely students engaged in open discussions in attempts to find meaning behind some inconceivable question, proposition or dilemma...this question to me, seems unbelievably ignorant...and i pose an alternative...whereof one cannot speak, mustn't they be vocal?

Answer 5

Those who cannot speak try to do so with hand signals. I'd let them try, rather than force them to be quiet, because I don't think we can force anyone to be silent if they choose to voice their opinions.. no matter how little they understand of the subject they are talking about.

Answer 6

Ha ha yes, that's it lol, 'cos only smarties have the answer!!!!

Answer 7

god is way beyond its own understanding...  can he make a problem so hard, that even he can't solve it?

can he make a rock so heavy, that even he can't lift it up?

if it's eternal, does it exist in the absence of time/matter?

Whereof one hath no clue, thereof one must shut ye fu©k up and learn!