"Kierkegaard was right. The only appropriate response to questions regarding the mystery of God is silence.
Throughout the ages, academicians sought to establish themselves as great thinkers, capable of divining the very essence of God, by using reason and constructing with words the answers to unsolvable questions. "Look at me, I've used reason to figure out what God is." To even suggest that one has is ridiculous and tells us more about what the writer thinks of himself than anything about what God is.
God is a paradox. Any knowledge of "it" is inaccessible through reason."
Perhaps.
Perhaps it is so that we cannot reason our way to accurate knowledge about God.
It does not follow, however, that God cannot simply REVEAL such knowledge, and understanding of it to us. I do not mean "some limiting understanding of it either", for that presumes to limit God. If God wants us to understand the whole thing, he is certainly capable of doing that, in an instant. Whatever limitations we have are not barriers to GOD willing whatever he wants. Were God to want to make us all gods in our own right, God could do it in a flash.
He doesn't, because He doesn't want to.
We can't reason our way to the right answers, but there have been people who have simply been GIVEN right answers to various different questions and puzzles, by God, directly through divine revelation. I do not speak here merely of the period of the prophets and the apostles either. There have been Saints since, in ever age, who have talked to God and angels and told us about it.
And the things they tell us, to the extent that God made them clear, are not arrivable at by reason, but are true nonetheless, because they are arrived at by FIAT, God's.
It does not follow, however, that God cannot simply REVEAL such knowledge, and understanding of it to us. I do not mean "some limiting understanding of it either", for that presumes to limit God. If God wants us to understand the whole thing, he is certainly capable of doing that, in an instant.
Do we know this by reason? See the contradiction?
We can know things about the nature of God through reason (and by revelation). Your latter statement is correct.
Indeed, the notion conforms with God's revelation:
Romans 1:20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.