Knowledge of God

The simplest and the surest way to know God is to study the Bible. Those, who believe that the Bible is not enough, can of course refer to numerous biblical scholars. However, in this case you have to take into account that you will receive the information of the third kind, namely revised in accordance with the author’s view. Well, there is nothing you can do – either you find the answers yourself or someone else will do it for you, naturally, not without his own benefit.

It goes without saying that you’d like to see and verify it firsthand. But is it possible? In the old days and some of them even presently, believers lurked in caves, fasted, prayed and then were given visions and revelations. Well, I don’t know. In the Bible it is only the "Revelation to John" was received this way. We could also recall the “Third book of Ezra” which is considered apocryphal. In all other cases there was no need for caves. For instance, Moses did not believe in anything and yet here we are.

A direct experience of knowledge of God is an exceptional phenomenon and it is not the kind of experience that is to be shared with others except for prophecy, of course. The truth is, God appears only when He chooses to. It is not the kind of event that happens in everyone’s life, but rather the opposite. It has its own negative consequences: at first, the person can become proud and feel that he’s better than others. And this is the last thing God wants. And secondly, the manifestation of this wonderful phenomenon can make others change their attitude towards this person – they should either exalt him (see p. 1), listen to him, honor him, or they should drag him down, announce lunatic, that happens most often. There is a good proverb: “If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia”. There is quite a lot of truth in this vulgar joke, much more than we’d want to. Nevertheless, the chance to know God personally actually exists. It doesn’t make a person taller nor does it make him better than others. Read the Bible. You can’t say the prophets were exceptionally just men, but quite the contrary. Remember David. Or Moses? It was prohibited for him to enter the Promised Land.

The closeness to God does not always mean “holiness” in its general meaning. It is a general practice to endow such a person with all the thinkable and unthinkable advantages. Such a person has to be sinless, perfect and even better if he died long ago and there is no single witness to prove what he was like for real. Alas, as a rule, everything is quite the opposite. Remember Solomon.

Giving the intermediate findings, I’d say that the knowledge of God is possible but at this stage of human development it is absolutely unnecessary and even when it occurs it is better left covert. Just look at all these churches, persuasions, religious and pseudo-religious doctrines! Once there is a new character in this area, charismatic and strong, wait for the new revelation, division, sectarianism and so on. Any deviation from the primary source (the Bible) always means the birth of a new delusion. These delusions accumulate, constitute scriptures, moralizing books and others. So why is there no single true faith?

The answer is plain simple – because God distanced from us. Soon I will sort out why that happened. But for now it is suffice to say that the knowledge of God is the question of the future, when something the prophet said about will take place: [Jeremiah 31:34] And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

 And presently we must admit that this time has not yet come and we must do our best for this to happen. Soon I will write in details about what needs to be done and how.