God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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