Do Not Imagine God

What is wrong with Imagining God?

It's quite human and natural to imagine things which we know and don't know. There are only few things which human beings cannot imagine, like the biggest number, the size of universe, etc. But there is only one thing man can never imagine. It's no one else other than Almighty God, the creator and sustainer of everything in the universe. 

Imagining God includes visualizing or modelling the shape of God, size of God, glory of God, acts of God, voice of God, power of God, ability of God, reason for creation of God. An after effect of imagining God is why we can see today god limited to papers and metals as idols. Limiting God, the creator of whole universe, by creating any idols and thinking that an idol we create represent God on earth is utter foolishness. It's not a sin to think about imagining God. But it is foolishness as well as sin to imagine and conclude that this is God because God is ineffable. Imagining God includes visualizing or modelling the shape of God, size of God, glory of God, acts of God, voice of God, power of God, ability of God, reason for creation of God.God is too great and too extreme to be imagined. The imagination of all human beings combined and the combination of all super computers ever made are not necessary to came to a conclusion after imagining God.

According to me, imagining God is an example for the limitation of thinking ability of human beings. They are putting limits to their own imagination and their imagination and maturity has not grown enough to realize that God is ineffable. A perfect example is that if we ask children of different ages or same children at different ages, 'what is the highest number?' Small children say 10 and little more big children say 100 and then 1000 etc. That is what they can imagine according to their age. It will take a while for them to be grown up and realize that actually there is nothing like a highest number because numbers are infinite. Similar to that, those who imagine and conclude that this is God or that is God are setting limitation to God by themselves.

This is why bible teach us to call upon the name of our LORD. It's not asking us to imagine God. Also bible makes it very clear that, God is Spirit and the creature cannot create back the creator. Wherever in bible, someone had an encounter with God, they are realizing themselves that God is ineffable and inexpressible. And what they witness as they have seen God is just a part of what God reveal to themselves, because no human can stay alive after seeing God and bible says no one has ever seen God as He is. When we pray, praise and worship God, all God is asking us to do is to do it in the name of God. LORD(also translated as Jehovah, Yah, YHWH) is His name. And other than Yesuva(Familiar as Jesus Christ), for our salvation, there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. In the period of New Testament, we have to approach Father God Yahweh in the name of Son of God Yesuva.