I don't know

I find the more time I spend attending school and learning everything I can about the nature of God, the less I really know. It's my nature to learn as much as I can about things I am interested in so I can better weigh information given to me. God is no exception. I don't want to rely on teachers to let me know about God, but I want some base of knowledge on my own so I can weigh what is being taught and decide for myself if it is true or not. What I have found is as I attend school and read books and listen to instruction regarding God, I have become more and more comfortable with the response

I don't know

to many of the questions that are asked of me. Now don't get me wrong, I have opinions on many different subjects regarding God and His nature and what not, but there are also a lot of things that I just don't know about and I am comfortable saying that.

Just last night, my son asked me about the omnipresence of God which led to a discussion about the triune nature of God. It's a tough enough question to answer without throwing into the ring the fact my son is 9 years old. We discussed it and talked about God and how much we really just don't know about Him. The bottom line in the end was I had to tell my son that I don't know the answer to some of his specific questions regarding the omnipresence of God. That was not the most satisfying answer for him, but it was a truthful answer. If we could answer every question we have about God with a specific answer wouldn't that remove God's diety and make Him too mundane? If every question we had about God and His nature were easily answered then faith becomes less about believing in what we do not see and more about understanding what we've learned about. I am happy to follow a God that I need to answer some questions about with

I don't know