(June 29, 2016 at 2:06 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(June 29, 2016 at 11:02 am)Ayen Wrote: Just a roundabout way of saying he's incomprehensible.
Try going to the people you love deeply and see how each reacts when you tell him or her how you define them. Usually people don't like being put in a box. Think for a moment how unreasonable it is to demand definition of the infinite I AM that encompasses who He is in His infinite fullness when you cannot even do that for finite human beings.
You will always notice that proofs of existence generally follow the negative way. Conceptions of divine attributes are formed by reflecting on what God is not. But yes, God is incomprehensible but that does not mean we cannot know some things about Him. Ultimately the relationship between God and an individual is personal not purely intellectual.
My guess is that most skeptics want believers to present them with a box to define God so they can argue about the box and avoid trying to actually reflect on what God might be.
Going and telling someone you deeply love how you define them is not the same as telling someone else about them. If you go to your wife and tell her how you define her, you could tell her that she "appear[s] to be the visible personification of absolute perfection". It doesn't necessarily have to be rude. But, if you are telling me about your wife, you would define her - 'wife' means woman, human female, your mate and legal partner. If however you told me nothing about her, not even that she was your wife, I probably wouldn't believe you were married! You can't expect anyone else to believe your claim that something exists if you won't even define what you actually mean, right?