You want to know what God is like? Remove all limits from your mind. If He's an ounce of an attribute, He's infinite in that attribute. If He's an ounce of love, He's infinite in that love. If He's an ounce of justice, He's infinite in that justice. If He's an ounce of knowledge, He's infinite in that knowledge. If He's an ounce of power, He's infinite in that power. He's the unchanging standard by which everything else is measured.
Why is there a second commandment? Because any image you make of an infinite being necessarily limits His majesty. You can't make a picture of an infinite being.
Everything in our experience is finite, limited. God is in another category. He is infinite, He's unlimited. That is why you can only comprehend God by analogy. You can only comprehend God by using thought rather than images. God is the standard by which everything else is measured. That's why Psalm 103:11 says that God's love to those that fear Him exceeds the height of the heavens above the earth. How high are the heavens above the earth? Infinite from our perspective. The heavens declare the glory of God. You want to know what God is like? Look to the heavens - even they are finite, but they are the closest thing in our experience - to limitlessness...
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