RE: Nihilism
May 18, 2011 at 5:57 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2011 at 7:35 am by Nimzo.)
(May 18, 2011 at 5:07 am)Rayaan Wrote: However, the thing is that I cannot comprehend God Himself because I don't know what He looks like nor what is His nature at the most fundamental level of His existence (because I am not God), and therefore, its only possible for me to talk about Him in terms of my idea OF God, but never God Himself. This is not to say that I don't believe in God Himself. I do believe in God, but it's just that I cannot understand Him except by words which represent ideas about Him (such as all-powerful, eternal, creator, designer, etc).You are right that we cannot keep God in our heads - he is too big!
In Christianity, God reveals His nature in the person of Jesus Christ and through Scripture. Of course, we cannot know God's nature in the same way that He knows Himself; but that is true of all the things that God knows (since He knows omnisciently and immediately). I don't know if these ideas correspond to your Islamic beliefs; the point is, though, that we can have true knowledge of God Himself, not simply ideas about Him, by His self-revelation.
