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While that's true to a point, except that God's ultimate revelation of himself is in the fully human person of Jesus of Nazareth - someone who we can begin to understand - and it's by looking at Jesus we get our clearest picture of God. So, while we can't fully understand God, we can (constantly) make steps towards understanding him.
However, we also need to be aware that when we deduce ideas or doctines from the bible we are producing something further from, not closer to, the reality.
The bible tells us about evil, how it came to be, and what God is doing about it, almost exclusively through naratives; it would be most arogant of us to think our theories are as good, let alone better, explanations than the stories themselves.
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