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God is incomprehensible. No Kidding?

The National Catholic Almanac offers a generous assortment of attributes about the nature of God's existence to choose from. According to this source, God is "almighty, eternal, holy, immortal, immense, immutable, incomprehensible, ineffable, infinite, invisible, just, loving, merciful, most high, most wise, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, patient, perfect, provident, supreme, true."
This is certainly an impressive list, but one problem immediately becomes apparent: included in this catalogue of characteristics is "incomprehensible." One must wonder how it is possible to declare God's incomprehensibility and simultaneously list twenty-two additional attributes. If God cannot be comprehended, how can the Christian offer us a string of attributes whose function, presumably, is to enable us to comprehend the nature of God's existence?
To claim that God is incomprehensible is to say that one's concept of God is unintelligible, which is to confess that one does not know what one is talking about. The theist who is called upon to explain the content of his belief - and who then introduces the "unknowable" as a supposed characteristic of the concept itself - is saying in effect:"I will explain the concept of God by pointing out that it cannot be explained."
Isn't this the highest level of ludicrosity mixed with absurdity; if not the lowest level of mediocrity mixed with insanity? - - - Poch Suzara