I understand that we can never fully understand God. That said, if there were to be NO understanding, then why bother with Revelation or Scripture at all? He gave us the ability to understand, did He not? Christ speaks of understanding quite often.
Indeed He did. By dying to the self, the nous becomes clear and we can experience the "light" which is the uncreated energy of God. To the extent that we can experience that Light, as the apostles did at Mount Tabor, we come to understand something about God and "participate" in Him, though not in the sense of a hypostatic union. By the use of apophatic theology, we can understand a bit about God by perceiving what He is not. But beyond that, or in point of fact even then, what we see and understand,
"βλεπομεν γαρ αρτι δι εσοπτρου εν αινιγματι"
***I understand that we can never fully understand God. That said, if there were to be NO understanding, then why bother with Revelation or Scripture at all? He gave us the ability to understand, did He not? Christ speaks of understanding quite often.***
For those who have not achieved a full state of Grace, there is the Church to guide. Jesus says to go to the Church; He left Peter as the steward and the Apostles as the first bishops. Understanding is for no one man, but the Body of Christ and the Church which guides it, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.