God's Incomprehensible Nature | Doctrines of the Catholic Church (Part 7)

God’s full nature will always be incomprehensible to men, including the saints in heaven.

This dogma states that we can never have a complete grasp of God’s reality, and all our knowledge of Him will always fall short. Even though we can have a truthful understanding of God through analogy, as previously discussed, we will never reach a point where we can comprehend him completely. The reason is that human intelligence is finite, which necessarily makes it inadequate to learn about a being who is infinite. There is a boundless abyss between the eternal creator and the temporal creature that can never be bridged, no matter how many study hours are dedicated. Finite creatures can only finitely know an infinite God.

The incomprehensibility of God also applies to the angels and the blessed saints in heaven, who, even though they have been purified from their sins and are already seeing God face-to-face, are still creatures hampered by natural cognitive limitations. No created being has the intelligence to understand God’s nature completely. Only God can fully know who God is.

0:00 Opening Prayer
0:47 Definition of the Doctrine
2:21 Proof from Scripture
3:57 Proof from Tradition
7:08 Special Concerns
9:29 Closing Prayer

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Music: Dreamland by Aakash Gandhi

Special thanks to Ludwig Ott whose textbook Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma serves as the reference for many of these doctrines!