The best we can ever get when we're talking about a transcendent, eternal, infinite being

is language that describes him in ways in which he is like.

But no metaphor, no analogy can ever contain or grasp him in its fullness. One of the ways we describe God is by talking about his incommunicable attributes,

those attributes which he alone possesses.

For example, we say that God is omniscient.

He knows everything there is to know. He's omnipotent. He's all-powerful.

But our understanding of those things is limited by our humanness.

Today, on this Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind, R.C. Sprawl moves to a different section of the Westminster Confession of Faith to examine what we can know about God.

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again at the end of the episode. Well, here's Dr. Spraw. God is infinite in his perfections,

infinite in his being. Now, whatever else you and I are, we are

finite. And John Calvin once had a very famous slogan that went like this in Latin,

finitum non-capox infinitum.

The finite cannot contain or grasp the infinite.

If I have a glass of water which has a finite volume to it, I cannot put in it an infinite

amount of water because a finite receptacle can't hold

an infinite amount of anything.

And as finite creatures, we can never grasp God fully in His infinitude.

And even in heaven, where so much more about God will be revealed to us,

and the way in which our struggling understanding now is affected by ongoing sin will be improved

in that mirror that we look at now darkly will be so much more bright when

we step across the threshold into heaven. Even in heaven, even in our own glorification,

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