No offense meant to you Calvinists but the fact is, we don't "know" a whit of what you guys seem to think we know. And vain striving is not necessarily pleasing to God. He gave us commandments to follow, which a ten year-old child can understand, and I don't recall any Gospel telling us He wants us to try to figure Him out beyond that.
I go with Alexander Pope: Know then thyself, Presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is Man.
***I don't recall any Gospel telling us He wants us to try to figure Him out beyond that.***
Philippians 3:10
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings,
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life
Colossians 1:10
Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and you will continually do good, kind things for others. All the while, you will learn to know God better and better.
1 John 4:6
But we belong to God; that is why those who know God listen to us.