(December 2, 2022 at 10:11 pm)Belacqua Wrote: It's related to the long-standing tradition of apophatic theology, mostly used in the Eastern Church but known in the West as well. The idea is that any concept we can use to describe God will be at best misleading, and quite possibly wrong. So for example if we assert that "God exists," the apophatic theologian will dispute this, saying that the word "exists," as understood by people, doesn't apply to God.An atheist asserts almost the same thing. We leave out "as understood by people" because AI and beings such as angels or talking snakes haven't been demonstrated to exist either, so people are the only entities capable of understanding words.
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There are no answers in Genesis
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