Knowing God

I want to take a more detailed look at a couple of verses I referenced in my last post.  I want to put them into their context because they make an important point about our knowledge of God and His plans for the creation.  
 
1 Corinthians 2:7-10 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.  But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.  10But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

You’ll notice I included the verses that preceded verses 9 & 10 from the last posts quotation.  V. 9 appears to be Paul’s paraphrase of Isaiah 64:4 which the NKJV translates as: “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.”  

A key assertion of Isaiah 64:4 is that no one has ever seen another God who does the things that the God of the Bible has.  The reason being there is no other God than the God of the Bible.  Paul highlights one other key implication of Isaiah’s statement.  While we can learn some things about God by observations of what He has done, meaning studying the material universe, there is very little beyond that.  That is because God exists apart from the observable universe, He is transcendent.  Romans 1:19-20 lists a few basic facts we can deduce about God by examining the world.  That He is eternal, artistically creative, powerful and extremely smart. 

To truly know who God is and what He is about, where He is leading the creation, you have to look to the Bible.  Should not even the atheist be able to define the God they reject?  How terrible would it be to discover after it is too late that you’ve spent your life dismissing the wrong thing?  Within the world of Christianity, I wonder if most disagreements on doctrine are based on wrong ideas about the nature of God.
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I have met so many people who have ideas about God that are based solely on hearsay or their own preferential view of who God should be.  Don’t entrust your future to an opinion, read the Bible and get to know the God who is.