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My apologies if I jumped to any conclusions prematurely. I was simply reacting to excessive rationalizations about that which is not within our reason to understand.

My background in Eastern Orthodoxy is free from "humanizing God" and "deifying man." Eastern Christianity has from the start (the Desert Fathers) asserted apophatic knowledge of God -- i.e. one that actually negates, not affirms; therefore affirmation by negation (of our own selves). God is ineffable, unscirumscribed and indivisible, simple, eternal, omnipresent, transcendental, etc.

This theology gave rise to monasticism and has become the doctrine of the Eastern side of the Church through the works of St. Gregory Palams. This theology is free from the Renaissance tendency to elevate human reason to divine heights. God is a Mystery that is not ours to solve. As the OT says "My thoughts are not your thoughts and My ways and not your ways." Yet through our Lord Jesus Christ, a perfect God and a perfect Man, we can relate to God in a personal manner that no other faith can.