(February 19, 2022 at 3:00 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 19, 2022 at 10:23 am)emjay Wrote: So how do you apply this 'Negative Way' thinking to the God of the Bible? Ie it's one thing to think of God in this abstract 'God of the philosophers' type way... God is Good, God is Being etc... but how you get from that, or can discern that, from reading the Bible, especially the OT, has frankly always been a complete mystery to me. Ie how do you get from the dynamic and seemingly arbitrary, spiteful, jealous (as it is itself claimed to be in the Bible), insecure and indecisive god of the OT - one willing to repeatedly smite whole groups/populations for the sins of a few, just to make a point or advance a narrative - to this somewhat static-seeming abstract concept of a God of the Five Ways... God is capital G Good itself, God is capital B Being itself? Basically I'm asking, how does 'Negative Way' thinking apply in practical terms to reading the Bible?
Those are complex questions well beyond the scope of this thread. That said, the path from Plotinus's One to the "I am" revelation to Moses is very short. Whereas it takes much contemplation to get to Christ cruxified.
What I will also say is that my personal approach to bible study is more esoteric and heavily influnced by Swedenborg.
In my opinion, Moses did not exist as a historical individual, kind of akin to Prester John.
