God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
Meaning of the quote
According to the philosopher Leo Strauss, the Bible teaches that God is impossible for people to fully understand. This means that even though we can learn about God, we can never know everything there is to know about God.
About Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss was an American scholar of political philosophy who had a long career as a professor at the University of Chicago. He studied the works of Plato, Aristotle, and other influential thinkers, and his research focused on reinterpreting their ideas for contemporary political theory.
More quotes from Leo Strauss
If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
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God’s reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world – and man.
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But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
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All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren’t noticing, which makes you see something that isn’t even visible.
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I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.
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