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    It is not the case that There is a great and incomprehensible difference between the human and the divine mind.

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    • 1.Meaningful theological predication requires some analogical continuity between human and divine attributes, as Aquinas argued in Summa Theologiae I.13.
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    • 2.If the divine mind is wholly incomprehensible, all positive theological claims—including claims about God's goodness or power—become semantically vacuous.
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    • 3.A theology that evacuates itself of cognitive content collapses into the atheism it purports to oppose, as Hume himself noted against negative theology.
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    • 1.The Imago Dei doctrine, central to Abrahamic traditions, entails that human rational faculties partially reflect divine intellect, grounding genuine resemblance.
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    • 2.Asserting incomprehensibility as a mark of piety is itself a comprehensible claim about God's nature, which performatively contradicts the doctrine of total incomprehensibility.
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    • 1.The divine mind is immeasurably beyond human understanding.
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    • 2.The truly pious acknowledge that God's nature exceeds human comprehension.
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