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God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything [i.e., "not any created thing"]. Literally God is not, because He transcends being. [80] When he says "He is not anything" and "God is not", Scotus does not mean that there is no God, but that God cannot be said to exist in the way that creation exists, i.e. that God is uncreated.
As Saint Augustine wrote, similarly, "if you can grasp [God], it isn’t God." [4] A cataphatic way to express God would be that God is love. The apophatic way would be to state that God is not hate (although such description can be accused of the same dualism). Or to say that God is not love, as he transcends even our notion of love.
The traditional understanding of the difference between cardinal and theological virtues is that the latter are not fully accessible to humans in their natural state without assistance from God. [6] Thomas Aquinas believed that while the cardinal virtues could be formed through habitual practice, the theological virtues could only be practised ...
The opposite of Deus absconditus in Lutheran theology is the concept of Deus revelatus ("revealed God"). [4] In the Kingdom of France, the concept was important to the Jansenist movement, which included Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine.
Apep the ultimate evil of Egyptian mythology in snake form; Isfet chaos, disorder, and injustice - opposed to Maat; Nu (mythology) primordial waters Set (deity) was not originally evil, but developed into a hated figure thanks to the invading Hyksos who identified him with their chief god, fights Apep.
God remains within the apparent "vacated" space of Creation, just as before, as "I the Eternal, I have not changed" (Malachi 3:6), the Infinite "Upper Unity" that nullifies Creation into Ayin-nothingness. Creation, while dependent on continual creative lifeforce, perceives its own Yesh-existence, the Finite "Lower Unity".
And that’s the exact opposite of what happened,” she said. “I was a nervous wreck and he was comforting me, telling me to be obedient to God, stay strong, keep the faith, keep the hope.”
In 1577, the Formula of Concord was crafted to settle the question of the nature of genuine adiaphora, which it defined as church rites that are “neither commanded nor forbidden in the Word of God.” [6] However, the Formula added believers should not yield even in matters of adiaphora [example needed] when these are being forced upon them ...