RE: How did little old us ever take the measure of unimaginably stupendous God?
July 28, 2015 at 4:45 pm
(July 28, 2015 at 11:18 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: Christian theists, why is it necessary to use descriptors which apply to nothing else in describing your God.Probably because nothing else compares to God.
(July 28, 2015 at 11:18 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: If so why say that God is immeasurable, eternal, omnipotent and omniscient? Do we actually possess the means to determine if any of these claims are true? No.If by determine your mean point to empirical evidence, then you may be correct; but it must always remain an open question. You cannot know for certain whether some kind of empirical evidence will someday appear. If you meant to include logical demonstrations based on immediate experience, then I refer you to Aquinas’s Five Ways. I am currently debating the validity of these in the Debate Area.
(July 28, 2015 at 11:18 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: For Christians, it seems, God is not the primary object of belief.God is known by both reason applied to experience (general revelation) and by the Holy Scriptures (specific revelation). As such it would be more fitting to say that I “believe Jesus” rather than “believe in Jesus”.
(July 28, 2015 at 11:18 am)Whateverist the White Wrote: Do you admit that the mystery of God is first and foremost a mystery?Many things about the Christian God are and remain a mystery. However, Christians believe that the rationality of the world reflects an intelligible God with many divine attributes capable of being known.
