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And so we can gather up testimonies, make observations about Him from His creation, compile His own words revealing Himself to us - whether Name or attribute - and yet we should stop short of presuming that we fully know or could ever fully know "Who God IS" - i.e. Ayn Sof. ["No-thing."]

Man is not the measure of God.

Indeed, dearest sister in Christ. That's exactly the meaning I was trying to convey in Post #156. That's not to say that we should not "gather up testimonies, make observations about Him," etc. We want to understand Him. But it seems we need to be aware that He is not reducible to human categories of understanding.

This is an epistemological point. It's of concern to me, for man has the propensity to forget that his theories about anything are not the same thing as that to which they refer in Reality. No dogma can possibly encompass God as He IS in His fullness....

Instrumental reason cannot disclose who God IS. Only His self-revelation to us can do that, and that must necessarily be partial. For our minds are finite, quite puny, compared to the infinite Mind of God.

In short I completely agree with you, dear sister in Christ: We ought not to superimpose our mental limitations onto God's revelations of Who He Is.

I'm truly sorry if I've offended anyone by making such "philosophical" remarks. [My bad.]

[Alamo-Girl]

It's not even possible for you to offend me, dearest sister in Christ! I appreciate your confirming that we are in agreement, as always. And I love it when you wax philosophic.

Truly, when people try to superimpose their own mental limitations on God's revelations of Himself we end up with things like Michaelangelo's "Creation of Adam" in the Sistine Chapel - beautiful but misleading.

Conversely, we all benefit when we disclose everything - what we know, what we suspect, what we cannot know.

God's Name is I AM.

[TXnMA]

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