“The immediate vision of God transcends the natural power of cognition of the human soul, and is therefore supernatural.”

Often we like to bring God down to us. We like to think we can put Him in our neat little boxes, properly indexed, labeled, and shelved. Alas, God resists such cognitive acts. His “thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways [His] ways … As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are [His] ways above your ways and [His] thoughts above your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9). Man is, by nature, limited and finite. God is, buy nature, limitless and infinite. Even just to look upon God threatens death (Judges 13:22). To see God blows man's mind like fuses on an overloaded socket.

Because the vision of God is so far beyond our comprehension, we need a supernatural nitrous boost to our human cognition engine. To say we don't need this beyond natural power surge would be tantamount to saying the gulf between man and God is not infinite. Such a claim would debase God by putting the Creator on par with the creation – the pot would be equal to the potter.

Further Reading: Peter sees Jesus is the Son of God only by the Spirit, and when left to his own cognition fails to see that God came to serve (Matthew 16:13-28).