Invisible Divine Attributes
How to know the unknowable?
Johannes Hevelius observing through telescope. Figure F from the book Selenographia by Johannes Hevelius (Gdansk, 1647)
“I do not wish to argue with valid statements, even if they were made by enemies of our faith” - Origen
Based on an analysis of ancient philosophical and theological texts, it can be proven that the followers of the theistic god of the Abrahamic religions used Platonic concepts such as Mind, Demiurge, Being, Good, and One to create this abstract entity in their minds. They borrowed the pagan concept of god and pagan terminology in order to create their god. However, they changed the essence of this deity, creating a being radically transcendent to all visible beings.
The Jewish philosopher and theologian Philo, in his work De Somniis, writes about God: “always ‘unnameable, inexpressible, and incomprehensible by any idea’.”
Philo uses the original Greek term ἀκατάληπτος [akatalēptos] (“incomprehensible”) here. In this case, the term refers to the complete impossibility of intellectually comprehending what God is in essence. Philo also uses another term in relation to God, namely ἀπερινόητος [aperinoētos], meaning “inconceivable” or “intellectually elusive.”
Another theologian, this time a Christian, who insisted on the unknowability of the theistic god was Clement of Alexandria. This theologian was clearly fascinated by Medio- and Neoplatonism. He writes that God is infinite and therefore unnameable. He is unnameable because he cannot be represented in any image, but also because he is intellectually incomprehensible.
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