(September 10, 2019 at 8:17 am)Grandizer Wrote: [...] it's a little sketchy when theists try to argue for a very intellectual type of god that possesses characteristics that are exclusively based on Christian scripture/tradition?
I don't know the arguments by which people combine, say, impassibility with the three persons of the Trinity. I think good theologians are very careful in discerning "natural theology" -- that which can be logicked out -- from revelation. Christianity as I understand it always has an element of faith or mystery, and a felt need to be compatible with the Bible. (Though we've seen that different readings of the Bible make a lot of different things compatible with it.)
As long as they don't pretend their revelation is proven or provable, I don't see why it's dishonest.
