No on knows it all, except God.

You don’t know it all. No one does. And just when you think you have a previously unrevealed mystery figured out and nailed down, be sure you do not.

Do you think you understand the full mystery of the trinity of God? You don’t. Do you think you understand the relationship between human free will and the divine foreknowledge of God? You don’t. No one knows fully, only in part.

Concerning such mysteries, what you have, at best, is a snap-shot of the tip of an iceberg. Don’t presume you understand its depth and breadth. What you have, at worst, is an untestable hypothesis that may even be heretical, and you wouldn’t be the first.

Walk, therefore, in humility on such issues. Don’t fall in love with your own knowledge or your own ideas. Stay in love with Jesus, with God, and let mysteries be mysteries. Keep the simplicity of the Faith as did the first disciples and the apostles, and model your understanding on their understanding, on their examples, on their experiences, and on the plain clarity of the Word. Meditate on the abstract and esoteric, but stand on the clear and plain.

“The secret things belong unto the LORD our God.” 1

Unless it’s explicitly clear in the Word, we are wise not to make assertions we can’t sufficiently back up from the Word. Remember that we are limited. Our God is not.

Deuteronomy 29.29 ↩︎