Like math and physics, religion is a human activity, a heart-felt response to the mystery of the cosmos. However inspired or lofty, religious expressions of truth are limited by their own finitude. Like math and physics, they resemble reality without being equivalent to it. Our notions of the absolute, the eternal, the all, the nothing, or God do not exhaust that which we attempt to describe. They are our notions of God, however inspired or verified by centuries of experience and the testimony of the faithful. The are perceptions, perhaps incredibly helpful ones, but perceptions none the less. Every kind of human knowing is shaped by the knower, individually and culturally. And among the body of transcendent knowledge that comes through the spiritual insights of the millennia, and there is much, the most important virtue among them is most surely humility, which is the beginning of wisdom.
-Timothy Carson, The Square Root Of God
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