Fathomed
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The term "fathomed" is not directly found in the Bible; however, the concept of understanding or comprehending the depths of God's wisdom, creation, and love is a recurring theme throughout Scripture. The idea of fathoming is often associated with measuring or understanding something profound and vast, which aligns with the biblical portrayal of God's infinite nature and the mysteries of His creation.

Divine Wisdom and Knowledge

The Bible frequently speaks of the unfathomable nature of God's wisdom and knowledge. In Romans 11:33, the Apostle Paul exclaims, "Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!" . This verse highlights the idea that God's wisdom is beyond human comprehension, emphasizing the limitations of human understanding when it comes to divine matters.

Creation and the Natural World

The vastness and complexity of God's creation are also depicted as beyond human ability to fully fathom. In Job 38-41, God challenges Job with questions about the natural world, illustrating the depth of His creative power and the limitations of human understanding. For instance, Job 38:4-5 states, "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know!" . These rhetorical questions underscore the idea that the intricacies of creation are ultimately known only to God.

The Love of God

The love of God is another aspect of His nature that is described as immeasurable and beyond full human comprehension. In Ephesians 3:17-19, Paul prays that believers "may have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge" . This passage suggests that while believers can experience and understand God's love to some extent, its full magnitude is beyond human capacity to fathom.

Human Limitations and Divine Revelation

While the Bible acknowledges the limitations of human understanding, it also affirms that God reveals Himself to humanity in ways that can be grasped. Deuteronomy 29:29 states, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law" . This verse indicates that while some aspects of God's nature and plans remain mysterious, He has provided sufficient revelation for humans to know Him and follow His will.

Faith and Trust in the Unfathomable

The recognition of God's unfathomable nature calls believers to a posture of faith and trust. Proverbs 3:5-6 encourages, "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight" . This exhortation reflects the biblical teaching that faith involves trusting in God's wisdom and guidance, even when His ways are beyond human comprehension.

In summary, while the term "fathomed" itself is not explicitly used in the Bible, the concept of understanding or measuring the depths of God's attributes is a significant theme. The Scriptures consistently portray God's wisdom, creation, and love as profound and beyond full human understanding, inviting believers to respond with faith, trust, and reverence.
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God's Restraining Power.
... this book of Job, who, in their debates and interchange of thought, sought to vindicate
God's hiding of Himself, he imagines that he has fathomed the mystery ...
/.../selected sermons of schleiermacher/xii gods restraining power.htm

Christ's Prophetic Office
... Is thy servant a dog?' 2 Kings 8:13. Grande profundum est homo. Augustine.
The heart is a great deep, which is not easily fathomed. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/3 christs prophetic office.htm

Preface
... New and glorious light flashes forth from many a familiar passage, the depth
of which the reader supposed he had long before fathomed. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/preface.htm

The Guide into all Truth
... we find in them, as I believe, hints profound and pregnant, which only need to be
unfolded and smoothed out, as it were, and their depths fathomed, in order to ...
/.../the guide into all truth.htm

June 21, 1897
... before all Simon's guests to wash with her tears her Master's Feet"those Feet that
for the first time she touches"I feel her heart has fathomed that abyss ...
//christianbookshelf.org/therese/story of a soul/v june 21 1897.htm

Luther --A Stone on the Cairn
... hope. His life is the ultimate, perfect revelation of the divine Nature
which can never be surpassed, or fathomed, or antiquated. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/luthera stone on the cairn.htm

Letter ii. --Interior Troubles.
... You have never really thoroughly fathomed this essential point but have always stopped
short to examine into your fears and doubts instead of rising above them ...
/.../de caussade/abandonment to divine providence/letter ii interior troubles.htm

The Bible.
... There are truths there that the Church of God has been searching out for the last
eighteen hundred years, but no man has fathomed the depths of that ever ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/moodys anecdotes and illustrations/the bible.htm

The Wisdom of God's Counsels
... these chiefly that the Apostle utters that strong exclamation, "How unsearchable
are his judgments!" His counsels, designs, impossible to be fathomed; "and his ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 68 the wisdom of.htm

Toleration
... Inspired, infinite, inexhaustible as it is, can we pretend to have fathomed all
its abysses, to have comprehended all its boundless treasures? ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon xxi toleration.htm

Thesaurus
Fathomed (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Fathomed (2 Occurrences). Job 5:9 who does great things
that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number; (WEB NIV). ...
/f/fathomed.htm - 6k

Fathom (5 Occurrences)

/f/fathom.htm - 9k

Inscrutable (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Unsearchable; incapable of being fathomed or understood
by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or ...
/i/inscrutable.htm - 7k

Fathoms (1 Occurrence)

/f/fathoms.htm - 6k

Deep (237 Occurrences)
... 12. (n.) That which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral
or spiritual depth or abyss. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. DEEP. ...
/d/deep.htm - 41k

Marvelous (30 Occurrences)
... peoples. (WEB KJV RSV NIV). Job 5:9 who does great things that can't be
fathomed, marvelous things without number; (WEB RSV). Job ...
/m/marvelous.htm - 18k

Agony (20 Occurrences)
... The effect of sin in separating the human soul from God was fathomed by the suffering
Saviour in the fathomless mystery of His supernatural sorrow. ...
/a/agony.htm - 18k

Cloud (119 Occurrences)
... The cloud is usually spoken of as bright and shining, and it could not be fathomed
by man: "Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass ...
/c/cloud.htm - 51k

Mystery (31 Occurrences)
... Revelation. It bears its ancient sense of a revealed secret, not its modern
sense of that which cannot be fathomed or comprehended. ...
/m/mystery.htm - 42k

Resources
What does it mean that God is Almighty? | GotQuestions.org

Does God make mistakes? | GotQuestions.org

Fathomed: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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