Transcending Reason: The Dual Paths to Understanding God
The answer to your question can be regarded as a combination of two aspects. On the one hand, our notions of God and His plans are shaped within the framework of human experience, relying on established verbal and conceptual constructs that are largely the result of collective thought and historically developed cultural traditions. As one of the sources indicates, "the realm of ordinary human, 'sensory knowledge' is that of the tangible, 'lower nature.' In relation to this sphere, all our concepts and words are formed... and the concept composed about It is merely a semblance of what is sought" (source: link txt). This demonstrates that describing Divine Nature solely through the means of conventional thought is difficult, since these means have always been the result of collective experience and linguistic conventions.On the other hand, understanding God on a spiritual level requires going beyond purely rational argumentation. Some texts emphasize that knowledge of God is attainable through intuitive perception, which is clearly not the product of formal collective thought. For example, one of the sources observes, "It is sometimes possible for a human, intuitively—that is, not through demonstrative thinking—to grasp the knowledge of things that lie beyond the sensory, material realm... Until we reach the sought-after understanding, we are guided by intuition, which we call 'faith'" (source: link txt). Similarly, another source stresses that "God can only be spoken of in the language of symbolic spiritual experience. In general, metaphysics is only possible as the symbolism of spiritual experience, as an intuitive description of spiritual encounters" (source: link txt).Thus, it can be concluded that the concepts of God and His plans are not determined solely by collective thought or rational concepts, but acquire meaning through intuitive, inner perception that transcends ordinary sensory experience. On the one hand, social and cultural traditions provide the foundation within which our understanding is formed, and on the other, individual intuitive contact with spiritual reality enables the grasping of that which goes beyond ordinary thought.