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In a recent /CG/ that I was a part of, someone expressed interest in approaching god for the first time in his life - looking to discover something he was called to find but never quite had. He was asking about exactly "what or who, IS god?!?", to which the following regards:
"God is "the wholly Other", invisible, inconceivable, radically transcendent, beyond all words, beyond all understanding. "Surely the babe just born", writes the Roman Catholic George Tyrrell, "knows as much of the world and its ways as the wisest of us can know of the ways of God, whose sway stretches over heaven and earth, time and eternity".
A Christian in the Orthodox tradition will agree with this entirely. As the Greek Fathers insisted, "A God who is comprehensible is not God".
A God, that is to say, whom we claim to understand exhaustively through the resources of our reasoning brain turns out to be no more than an idol, fashioned in our own image. Such a "god" is most emphatically not the true and living God of the Bible and the Church. Man is made in God's image, but the reverse is not true.