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    It is not the case that God's nature remains an inexplicable mystery beyond the scope of human understanding.

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    Reasons For

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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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    • 1.Kant's postulates of practical reason establish rational grounds for attributing determinate moral attributes to God independent of analogical empirical inference.
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    • 2.If moral experience grounds knowledge of divine attributes without relying on weak natural analogy, the claim that God's nature is inexplicable is too broad and must be restricted to metaphysical rather than moral characterization.
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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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