None Like Him by Jen Wilkin
Week 3: Chapter 2 — Incomprehensible
Read Chapter 2 of None Like Him. Key passages: Job 38–39; Romans 11:33–36.
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God is knowable, but he is not fully knowable — and Wilkin shows that our inability to comprehend him completely is not a problem with our faith but a feature of who he is.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Wilkin distinguishes between God being knowable and God being comprehensible. What is the difference, and why is it important not to collapse these two ideas into one?
2.She points out that when God speaks to Job out of the whirlwind in Job 38–39, he doesn't answer Job's questions — he asks his own. What does God's response to Job reveal about how he feels about our demands for exhaustive explanations?
3.Wilkin observes that we live in a culture that assumes all things can and should be explained, Googled, and understood. How has this cultural expectation of total comprehensibility crept into your relationship with God? Are there things about God you find yourself unwilling to simply sit with as mystery?