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The legitimacy and veracity of these premises will hopefully be made evident as we proceed. These have purposefully been expressed as simply as possible in order to avoid making our understanding of God any more difficult than it already is. God does what He does, because He is who He is. In this attempt to develop a Christian understanding of God there are two presuppositional premises that will be used to format our thinking. God ever remains somewhat of an inexplicable mystery to the finite understanding of man. If we had an infinite and completely comprehensive understanding of God, we, too, would be God, having omniscience. Our knowledge of God cannot be exhaustive, for the finite is attempting to understand the Infinite who has revealed Himself. Human understanding of God is further limited by the finite faculties that man has been created with. We must allow God to determine our understanding of Himself, and that by His own Self-revelation. Our knowledge of God comes only by means of, and must be derived out of, His own Self-revelation. Our understanding of God is not a result of independent human reasoning having set out to find God and figure Him out. Exodus 3:14), and subsequently revealed Himself supernaturally in the incarnation of His Son, Jesus Christ (cf. 1:20), as a Personal God to His people (cf. 1:18), but God has revealed Himself in His natural creation (cf. God can only be known to the extent that He reveals Himself. The development of an understanding of God is a necessary starting-point for the cosmic consideration of human understanding. Even the atheist has some concept of God that he denies. As we seek to explain reality, the world around us, and ourselves, man is forced to confront some understanding of God, even if it is a concept of God that he subsequently rejects and repudiates. It is incumbent upon mankind to engage in some form of theological consideration. Theology, in general, includes all subjects pertaining to God His historical actions, His objectives, His projected future actions, etc. There has admittedly been too much theological hair-splitting, but theology, by definition, is simply the study of God whereby we arrive at an understanding of God. Theology, proper, is limited to the consideration of God Himself. Theology is not a bad word! Some people have an aversion to theology, considering it to be the endless speculations of lofty ideologues fine-tuning their epistemological doctrines with ever more obfuscated semantics. It is different from the Jewish understanding of Jehovah, and unlike the Islamic understanding of Allah, even though these theological concepts are also monotheistic. A Christian understanding of God is unique, distinct, and unlike any other concept of God.