lukethethird
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Is God Unknowable?
Apparently He's homophobic and has a disdain for facts.
Apparently He's homophobic and has a disdain for facts.
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Theology and Bible teach that one way we can know His manifested side (attributes) is from created things.If not, what can be known about God?
What is known about God?
Or if knowledge about God is limited, has this limitation been defined.
Any God that you believe is real. WRT knowing your God, what are the possibilities?
What is not possible?
Hi PearlSeeker, I read your post. you quoted Roman 1 correctly, but apophatic theology, or negative theology is just that, "a" theology from Man's point of view. example as given, "Many of the ways in which we describe God include an apophatic aspect. For example, when we say that God is Spirit, we are also saying that God is not a physical being. Similarly, saying that God is infinite is to claim that He is not finite". this is incorrect, just as saying, "God is not a man", which is INCORRECT, God is the "ONLY", or TRUE MAN, we in Adam is only the IMAGE of the True Man. one scripture sets the stage that reprove this nonsense. Isaiah 46:10 "Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:" see in the END, God obtained a body that allow him to be infinite, and finite at the same time. listen, Colossians 2:9 "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.". right there is the deal breaker to man's nonsense. God had a body before the world was, in his MIND, Abstract, now concrete in linear time. just as the term "beginning" means in Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1. in "TIME", "PLACE", "RANK", and "ORDER". this is what bible prophecy is all about. let me say this again, THIS IS WHAT BIBLE PROPHECY IS ALL ABOUT. what is to come. scripture, 1 Peter 1:10 "Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:" 1 Peter 1:11 "Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." STOP and think, the Spirit of Christ? .... was where? in, in, in, the prophets. which is the Holy Ghost. so, Christ, (flesh and Blood), is the Natural IMAGE of God in Flesh. a Spirit in Flesh, meaning having a body.Theology and Bible teach that one way we can know His manifested side (attributes) is from created things.
"... because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse." (Romans 1:19-20)God's essence is defined as unknowable/unmanifested. (see apophatic theology)
Pseudo Dionysius describes the kataphatic or affirmative way to the divine as the "way of speech": that we can come to some understanding of the Transcendent by attributing all the perfections of the created order to God as its source. In this sense, we can say "God is Love", "God is Beauty", "God is Good". The apophatic or negative way stresses God's absolute transcendence and unknowability in such a way that we cannot say anything about the divine essence because God is so totally beyond being. The dual concept of the immanence and transcendence of God can help us to understand the simultaneous truth of both "ways" to God: at the same time as God is immanent, God is also transcendent. At the same time as God is knowable, God is also unknowable. God cannot be thought of as one or the other only. (Deirdre Carabine)Source:
Apophatic theology - Wikipedia