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    Challenges→Faith in the Incarnation must be held by virtue of the absurd

    Analogical predication allows rational discourse about divine attributes, preserving cognitive content in Incarnation claims beyond mere absurdity.

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    • 1.Analogical predication (e.g., God's 'knowledge' vs. human knowing) preserves meaningful semantic content while acknowledging ontological differences.
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    • 2.Without analogical bridges, claims like 'God became human' collapse into logical contradiction, rendering theological discourse meaningless rather than mysterious.
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    • 3.Humans successfully use analogy in other domains (consciousness in animals, properties of distant stars), supporting its rational legitimacy for divine attributes.
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    • 1.Analogy requires prior knowledge of both analogate and analogue; we lack independent access to divine nature to ground meaningful analogical comparison.
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    • 2.The Incarnation's core paradoxes (infinite/finite, immutable/changing) may exceed what analogy can resolve, making it incoherent rather than merely mysterious.
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    • 3.Analogical claims about God still risk equivocation: 'love' may mean nothing reliably similar between God and humans, rendering discourse semantically empty.
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