“Involved here is a matter of profound religious importance, to which Augustine gave expression as follows: ‘We are speaking of God. Is it any wonder if you do not comprehend? For if you comprehend, it is not God you comprehend. Let it be a pious confession of ignorance rather than a rash profession of knowledge. To attain some slight knowledge of God is a great blessing; to comprehend him, however, is totally impossible.’ God is the sole object of all our love, precisely because he is the infinite and incomprehensible One. . . Hilary put it as follows: ‘The knowlegde we have of God is altogether unique. This knowledge may be called positive insofar as by it we recognize a being infinite and distant from all finite creatures. On the other hand, it is negative because we cannot ascribe a single predicate to God as we concerive that predicate in relation to creatures. It is therefore an analogical knowledge of a being who is unknowable in himself , yet able to make something of himself known in the being he created.”
Herman Bavinck
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