Limits of Knowledge

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#1

God has many secrets and mysteries. I remember a song from a church mass:
“It is not given to you, people, to know the secrets of God.”

In the antique old there was the legend of Prometeus, who stole the fire from Zeus and gave it to people. Fire probably symbolizes knowledge.

Zeus punished him harshly.

Question: in time, people learn more and more secrets of God. Is there any limit where God will tell people: stop here .? I do not want you to know more.

One point of view might be simply that God, being infinite, has an infinite number of secrets, The more you learn, the less you actually know. Same with the horizon: the closer you come to it, the further away it is.

#2

Prometheus was punished harshly. I don’t think Fire has to symbolize Knowledge in his case, though – the story is very old, and the technique of Fire, cooked food, light in the darkness, etc. is quite useful without metaphorical extension.
I’ve been content and confident that people will (and some have) stop asking questions of God far before God grows silent in answering them. But first I wonder – do people really learn ‘secrets of God’? Or do people think there are ‘secrets’ because we conceal our eyes from them, and therefore do not see? (a young child playing ‘you can’t see me’ by covering her eyes . . . )
The rule of Love (or at least cooperation) is in gravity, in chemistry, in the radiance of stars, and these have been around forever (from a human perspective), for everyone to see. People don’t always notice, though, that creation shouts at us “Be together, and make something; be apart, and decay.”

Second – if we think God is silent, is (s)he really just saying "come on, you have a better question to ask. I’ll just be patient for a while longer . . . "

#3

There is no limit, the Divine in us has no limits, therefore in truth we are also limitless. It is the mind that limit us, the veil of ignorance our own blindness that limit us.