Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View

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I think fr0d0 was referring to St Augustine instead of St Thomas:

"What then, brethren, shall we say of God? For if thou hast been able to understand what thou wouldest say, it is not God. If thou hast been able to comprehend it, thou hast comprehended something else instead of God. If thou hast been able to comprehend him as thou thinkest, by so thinking thou hast deceived thyself. This then is not God, if thou hast comprehended it; but if this be God, thou has not comprehended it."

—St. Augustine

If we follow through on this god is Quantum Mechanics.

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I believe that was the aforementioned quote reference. This just goes to the point of God being unknowable thusly removed from the universe is unknowable withing the constains of this universe. the revelations presented by God then allow us to understand and define a concept of God without entirely knowing all of his attributes.

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As my first real post outside of introductions, I shall post my theological noncognitivist view in the form of a challenge:

I challenge any theist to provide a coherent ontology of God. Theists (especially Christians) seem to know that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, but these attributes cannot be applied to any known being.

Theists tend to first define God and then apply it to the God they believe in. This is illogical, as how can one derive the attributes of a thing without first observing the thing being defined?

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How is defining something and then aplying it to reality illogical? I have defined what is universally known as the color blue and call the chair I'm sitting on fits in that parameter. Of course none of us know that "blue" is "blue" because it's intangible, unobservable, a construct of human intuition and reasoning. However we assign it a universal definition and say this thing is "blue". A concept of God and God are 2 differnt things. I don't claim to know anything about God, however because of intuition, logic, reason and personal perspective I have a general concept of God that includes omnipotent and omniscient (purely from point-of-view and not belying consciousness). I think omnipresence is a derived attribute, persoanally.