Speaking about God

Exact talk about God breaks out of the bounds of ordinary language because of his deity. All language about him will be sketchy at best. Indeed the language of Scripture and the language of everyday life must be interpreted in one sense within the terms of everyday usage and in another within the community using the words.

Viewed from the standpoint of epistemological concerns, all the core of knowledge about God is at best a probability not to be deduced from the word that named the divine essence or induced from a human search for the relevant data. (Frederick W. Norris)

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the "meaning" of a word is its use in the language. (L. Wittgenstein)