R.C. Sproul

This is the treasury of Holy Scripture, the triune work of redemption by Almighty God.

Now, I spent many years teaching theology in the Theological Seminary.

And, of course, my principal task was teaching what's called systematic theology, which covers the entire scope of Christian doctrine.

At the opening lecture on the doctrine of God would always be the doctrine that we talked of, of the incomprehensibility of God, which is to say,

The depths, the riches, the heights, the breadth, the widths of who God is, is beyond our comprehension.

It is a knowledge that is so high that on our best days, our understanding of it is feeble.

John Calvin was famous for a little slogan

that he used that went like this, Finitum non capax infinitum.

The finite cannot contain the infinite, or the finite cannot grasp the infinite.

The knowledge of God is so high that the most brilliant of scholars

hardly ever scratches the surface of our understanding of who God is.

Now, having said that, though we cannot in this world fully comprehend the nature and character of God, that does not mean that

that God has left us in total darkness by which we have no apprehension of him.

This is why this concept of revelation

is so vital to our faith.

We can know something about God principally because God in His mercy has stooped to unveil, to disclose, and to reveal Himself to us in more than one way, but chiefly through sacred Scripture.

despite the grand revelation that God has given and the manifest and manifold aspects of that revelation, there still remains those things that are unsearchable.

Who can put their arms around them?

I mean, do you ever think about it?

I mean, I think about, I got a letter from a fellow this week who went to the same seminary I did