What If Our Familiarity With God Is the Problem?

What if the deepest obstacle to faith isn’t doubt, but certainty? In this reflection, I explore why good theology begins with gratitude and humility, and why our attempts to become too familiar with God may actually shrink the divine down to our size. Drawing on the work of Georges Lemaître, the priest and physicist behind the Big Bang theory, along with Tolkien, Pete Holmes, Paul Tillich, and the Apostle Paul, this is a meditation on transcendence, incarnation, and the mystery of existence itself. Can characters inside the story truly understand the author? Can we know God without pretending to comprehend God?