The Bible teaches that God is transcendent, but it also reveals that God is knowable through the Person of Jesus Christ (see John 14:7–11). Immanuel Kant believed God was basically unknowable because there is no way for the human mind to grasp the workings of the supernatural. An outgrowth of Kant’s views on reality and reason was a skepticism of all things metaphysical. But we can look at some of his basic premises and compare them to Scripture. To attempt an exhaustive analysis of Kant’s theories here would be impossible. The writings of Immanuel Kant are widely considered to be among the most profound of the world’s philosophies. We experience things and thereby gain knowledge, but, simultaneous with each experience is the working of the mind as it interprets and categorizes that knowledge therefore, our understanding of reality is the product of a synthesis of rationalism and empiricism. Kant argued that our first steps toward knowledge are experiential however, rationalism also brings something to the table. He set about finding a compromise between the two, and he set the philosophical world afire in so doing. In Kant’s day, there were two schools of thought: knowledge comes from human reason (rationalism), or knowledge comes from human experience (empiricism).

For example, Kant asked how we know things are real (that is, where does knowledge come from?). Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a highly influential German philosopher whose works centered mostly on the workings of the mind in regard to things like reason, aesthetics, and the nature of reality.

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