God's nature remains an inexplicable mystery beyond the s... — Carmelics

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God's nature remains an inexplicable mystery beyond the scope of human understanding.

Divine Attributes

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1.All analogies between God and human minds (or other natural processes) are weak and remote.
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2.Weak and remote analogies are insufficient to establish substantive knowledge of God's nature.
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3.No available analogy yields a determinate characterization of the first cause of the universe.
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1.Natural theology, from Aquinas to Swinburne, demonstrates that God's attributes (omnipotence, omniscience) can be derived through rigorous a posteriori inference.
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2.If causal reasoning can establish that a first cause exists, the same reasoning yields determinate structural properties of that cause proportionate to its effects.
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3.A conclusion that God is wholly unknowable is self-undermining, since it presupposes sufficient knowledge of God's nature to declare it inaccessible to human cognition.
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