So Philosophy and Theology are a waste of time? Unique of all other creatures (on Earth anyway) he gave only people the ability to exercise these disciplines. He gave us that without purpose other than to confuse ourselves? We may not be able to achieve a perfect understanding but far more than no understanding. (Why wouldn't he want us to know him?)

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.