What is reality? Some may argue that it is our perceived surrounding; however, how do we know that our perception is a true account of the world? The fact that our perception is limited by our five senses, means that we are unable to see the world in it's true form. Our five senses is not enough to experience reality as it alludes us from what it actually is, for instance there are many animals that experience the world completely different from us. Take bats for instance, and I quote (from 50 Philosophy Ideas you really need to know by Ben Dupre):

Bats navigate and locate insects in complete darkness by a system of sonar, or echolocation, by emitting high-frequency squeaks and detecting their reflections as they bounce back from surrounding objects. This form of perception is completely unlike any sense that we possess, so it is reasonable to suppose that it is subjectively completely unlike anything we are able to experience. In effect, there are experiences that we as humans could never experience, even in principle; there are facts about experience whose exact nature is quite beyond our comprehension.


The key point to keep in mind, is not how it is for us to behave like a bat, but what is it like for a bat to be a bat. It would appear that, bats experience the world in an entirely differently way from humans. This illustrates that there are more ways to experience the world than our five senses. So, it would seem that, empirical evidence is not enough for us to grasp upon what reality actually is.

Unless we are able to experience the world in more ways than our five senses we are ignorant to what reality is and can never know the true form of our world.

This - as an atheist I would rather not get into this, however it is an important point to consider - shows that something like God, is beyond our experience. We can never experience what God actually is because he/she/it is beyond our mind, beyond our capabilities. If God is what people say he/she/it is, omnipotent, omniscience etc, then God is the only one who can experience the true quintessential nature of the world. For this reason, nothing can be greater than God.

The compressed idea is that our perception of reality is only a fraction of what it truly is.