A lot of people say a lot of things about God. How can we tell who is right?

[More Than A Feeling]

It's an important question, with potentially eternal consequences. What if I'm wrong about what I think God is like? Maybe God doesn't care...but maybe he/she/it does. We'd have to know that first. Perhaps we should just have faith...or maybe that's the first step off the cliff as far as God is concerned. We could look in the Bible...unless God hates the Bible and cackles with delight as he/she/it plans the eternal pain that awaits anyone who looks at it. Maybe we can't say anything positive about God...unless that displeases God, who thinks that he/she/it has made perfectly clear the positive things that are to be said. What standard could be used?

How can we know? If you say we aren't meant to know, how do you know that?