Eventually, through logical thought and free will, we will, scientifically speaking, understand "God". The world will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, and the lion will lay down with the lamb.... Saying we can never fully understand Him is a weak statement unworthy of being associated with Him. Progress will be made in increments, most not revealing Him as He truly is, but these Next Steps will continue to occur whether most people doubt or believe.
And to stress, although I use HE and Him to refer to "God", this entity we seek does not exist as an object in space and time. Shame that the Bible often presents Him that way
Indeed;
What seems to be ignored, is that we need to understand enough to understand God's salvation work; if we don't, we can't get salvation.
A friend of mine is an atheist, and I love the way she words it:
" I don't believe in God, because it is unfair that we have no way of understanding if God is true or not, yet we are going to be put in hell for not believing? How can God punish us if he never made a way for us to understand?"
Excellent point;
If God truly exist, God will eventually reveal enough on our behalf for us to understand; this was done through Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ said it will be done again by 2nd Coming Christ.
The idea is that when Christ comes again, we will be beamed up the heaven; this is false, because if there is no clear way of understanding God, how will we understand what we must do to reach heaven? A lot of people believe that God's salvation work was complete by Jesus Christ, and we get a free pass to heaven from there on - but if Jesus's sacrifice made us righteous...why are we not in heaven?
There is more to be done, and more to be revealed in our generation for our understanding. God is aware of onslaught of human philosophy, falsehood in the churches, and engraving of mankind's traditions on God's directed traditions; the idols that have been casted and block our spiritual sight.
How can there ever be faith on the earth, when there are no ground for faith anywhere?
The Bible speaks of our time as the " scattered sheep," who have been left as food to the beasts of the wilderness because there is no true Shepard; thus God says he would come as the true Shepard.
So, we have to seek 2nd Coming Christ essentially, in order for a understanding to be gained of God, or else we're left thrown to the wolves of falsehood and humanism.
Christians are so eagerly awaiting judgment day, but how can one be so safe in their spiritual position, when easily one can look around and see the truth of God has been lost? The way to salvation blocked?
The Atheist ( oddly enough,) see this reality quite clear, which is why they can beat down on Christianity so much; so then, why are the Christians so oblivious to the obvious?