A Second Preliminary Engagement With Emergentism: Questions

To what extent is the Emergentist dogma ("Every statement about God unravels itself") equivalent to the modernist Protestant dogma that humanity is incapable of approaching God?   Is it only a distortion of Protestantism to say that one "understands" God / salvation / right doctrine?  If so I think it's a distortion that was seeded in the very doctrines of Protestantism (and Catholicism).  But to what degree is Emergentism merely calling Protestantism back to take seriously its first doctrine, that a man is not God?  And an exclamation mark on the self-evident truth that reconciliation with God does not erase this distance between creator and creature?