If not, what can be known about God?
What is known about God?
Or if knowledge about God is limited, has this limitation been defined.
Any God that you believe is real. WRT knowing your God, what are the possibilities?
What is not possible?
Does
God exist? Is God
loving (allows wars, pain, disease, flooded world)? God put
Satan in charge of earth after evicting Adam and Eve from Eden, so is God cooperating with evil? Is the God that people pray to Satan, since it is Satan who is in charge? Does that explain why
prayers go unanswered?
Once we straighten out all of that, we can address your question about knowing God. It makes no sense to try to know God if God doesn't exist.
If God is all that they say (knows everything, even knows the future, is loving, etc.), then I can say:
God is to us, as we are to a dog.
Can a dog know us?
Dogs can understand that we want them to do things (fetch stick).
But dogs may not be able to do everything (use and flush toilet, drive to town, shop).
When things are very very very important to God, God gives us special instructions. For example, Revelation is from God through a psychic named Saint John, the Divine, and it is a
commandment from God not to attack Iraq or face God's wrath.
The problem is, we're too stupid to understand the very clear instructions from God.
President George W. Bush openly defied God by attacking Iraq. He should have had patients to wait for confirmation that Iraq was involved in terrorism. In retrospect, the 1,000,000 Iraqi lives that were lost were needlessly lost (since Iraq was not involved in terrorism). Torture camps around the world (such as the one in Guantanamo, Cuba, and the one in Iraq, and the one on a ship in the Indian Ocean) were clearly against God's wishes. Clearly W. Bush withheld info from American voters and most (but not all) of the members of Congress. Now W. Bush is a bonafide war criminal, just as Hitler was.
Revelation, itself, in the bible, says that there will be people who will alter the meaning of it. That's why Revelation says that he who alters the meaning of Revelation will be written out of the book of life forever, and cast into the lake of fire of the bottomless pit of hell for all eternity.
Apparently, many preachers now will go to hell and roast in its fires for eternity for insisting that there is some, hitherto unknown, town (or state of mind) called Babylon that is not the same as the Babylon that has been a city in what is now modern day Iraq, for thousands of years. Clearly Revelation was about the Babylon that current exists in Iraq.
Clearly W. Bush defied God when he tried to get Wilson to tell lies about Niger's yellow cake Uranium, falsely asserting (bearing false witness) that Niger was selling Uranium to Iraq. Wilson refused to lie us into yet another war, so W. Bush and Cheney outed Valerie Plame (Wilson's CIA wife), which resulted in the murder of embedded CIA agents that Plame associated with. W. Bush got John Woo to redefine the word "torture" so he could tell a lie and pretend that he never tortured anyone. Under that redefinition, no torture ever existed, nor could exist. Thus, under that new definition of torture, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis never tortured anyone either. Redefining is another way of lying.
Can we know God by reading Revelation? Yes, of course. The important parts of the bible are very clearly written, but
reacting to Satan's fear (fear of future terrorism) we ignore God's commandments to us. According to Tom Ridge (head of Homeland Security), he never issued orange alerts (and he is the only one who could), but those alerts came from higher up (W. Bush or Cheney).
Remember that
Satan uses fear, greed, and lies to sway our decisions. So absorbed by fear, we cannot follow or know God. We've attacked peaceful nations, killed a million innocent people, tortured people, all so that we could feel a tiny bit more secure, knowing that we murdered a million people who lived somewhat in the region where the real terrorists lived (right next door).
When we focus on our needs (our need to feel safer, etc), we ignore God's command to do unto others.
We can't know God while following Satan (fear, greed, lies).