Humans are used to seeing truth in such a way that is exact in the nature of itself that he is accustomed to, and therefore humans will refuse to see something that is manifesting itself in any other way rather than that which he is accustomed to as being a truthful manifestation of itself. In order for this manifestation to become truthful, we must be able to determine the evidence needed in order for human beings to see this manifestation as truthful. When it pertains to God, truths can be derived by examining two forms of evidence. There are certain things that humans still cannot comprehend regarding God, for example that God is both one and three. Philosophers in the past have been able to ascertain the existence and unity of God through natural reason, and this is one thing humans have been able to figure out how to do in their comprehension attempts of God. Natural reason will attest to the existence of God simply due to the fact that there are things about his being we are not able to comprehend. This is due to the fact that in order for humans to be able to fully understand something, we need to be able to observe and understand the innermost being of a subject, and to know it’s function as well as it’s purpose.
When this innermost being is effectively demonstrated, we can ascertain this to be an exhibition of comprehension and therefore truth. A demonstration of a subject matter’s innermost being is an exhibition of our form of knowledge as it applies to this subject matter, and therefore an exhibition of our comprehension of the subject matter and what we perceive to be the truth in it that is being examined. Therefore it we come to the conclusion that the limitations of human reasons as it pertains to understanding that particular subject matter, as it would a stone or a triangle, restrict to the human mind what is truthful and what is unusual for the subject matter in question. The same cannot entirely be said when it pertains to God. We are limited by our senses when it comes to our understanding of God. We are not able to comprehend him due to these limitations, as God is beyond our senses, and therefore becomes beyond our comprehension, as our senses form the basis for the limitations and restrictions of our natural reason.
If divine substance is what caused the senses to exist, and it was meant to be that the senses were not meant to sense the divine substance that is God, then why should we assume these byproducts created by the divine substance should surpass their own limitations in order to perceive the divine substance in order to comprehend it? We can reason that our understanding of God and his existence, however limited, implies that there are some things we do not understand, and others that we do, and therefore there is with certainty some intelligibility attached in regards to our knowledge of God.
To what extent or degree of intelligibility a human possesses, it will inhibit or enhance to a certain degree his capacity to understand the most basic ideas in philosophy. This concept can be practically examined when comparing between the common man and the intelligent man. The more intelligent man will be able to understand a greater encompassing breadth of knowledge in relation to a subject matter that the common man will not even be able to grasp at all. The intellect of an angel can therefore be assumed to be much greater than even the greatest of men, as the greatest of men is much greater than the common man.
The angel possesses a higher form of existence than man, and it’s truth regarding God due to it’s knowledge and standpoint in creation relative to man. Despite this, an angel is a creation of God, and therefore even it has limitations in regards to the natural knowledge it possesses of God and all things divine. The way God can understand himself, no angel or human can, as it he is the ultimate being of creation, that creates himself and creates creation itself. The way he can understand his creations, his creations cannot understand him. Using this logic, we can naturally progress towards the idea that as man or angels do not understand the substance of the divine, the same way a common man considering the philosopher’s pondering to be falsehoods, just because he does not understand them, is insane in itself, as much as the fact that if an angel presented a man with a truth above divinity, yet it was beyond his ability to investigate and reason with this truth in order to confirm it as a truth to himself.
In our daily inability to measure some mysterious phenomena as it pertains to nature, we similarly live in ignorance of that which is perceived by our senses, as sometimes we cannot truly make out what we sense with our five senses to be completely true. As this is the case on a very common basis, why should it be as easy a task to be able to comprehend the nature of God and all that is divine? In the words of Aristotle in Metaphysics, “the eyes of the bats to the sun is equivalent in comprehension as to the intelligence of our soul is to the very essence of nature’s mysteries”.
Even the Bible writes of this:
Perchance thou wilt seize upon the traces of God, and fully discover the Almighty.
Lo, God is great, and surpassing our knowledge.
We know in part.
Therefore, it is wise for us to conclude that even though it is beyond our means to investigate, one should not automatically classify it as a falsehood.