The God of Revelation and the God of the Philosophers /part 3/
Philosophical demand is an extraordinary wealth of ideas, which is achieved through the power of the human spirit in its entirety in understanding the picture of the world. In front of the seemingly chaotic world, the philosophical mind seeks to establish consistency, to show the connection of the causes. He wants to reveal through the concrete realities the very structure of being. In these quests of being he seeks to attain the primal principle, which is both the cause, pattern and purpose of everything that exists. This principle is called God. The philosophical approach necessarily brings to the problem of God. In essence, only this problem represents a real interest in the philosophical approach.
Here, however, a dangerous temptation arises before philosophy, because it achieves this by requiring the principle of God to be tolerated. This principle is a requirement for her. She applies to him the principles that bring it to him, with the requirement that he also be wandering, though the madness he applies to him is a law of human thinking. Philosophy defines the principle of this principle with the help of its own categories. It calls it One, the Supreme Blag, the First Engine, Absolute Spirit, Idea. In a number of philosophical systems and teachings, the whole reality is reduced to a fully coherent system for which God serves as an immanent law. Reason must acknowledge God in order to remain faithful to himself, and by this statement to accept his own limits and possibilities. Reason can not only come to the truth of God's existence, but can also draw some concepts about Him. It should go even further. Creator's mind, however imperfect it may be, has the ability to penetrate into the true nature of things and to draw a true scientific picture of the world. If he has as his object the created being, no object can exhaust his abilities. Thus, it is a boundary between the two worlds. He has extraordinary cognitive abilities for everything ultimately and ultimately, but does not reach the limits of Absolute Genesis, which goes beyond any definition. Though reason is unable to attain directly God's essence, it has all the prerequisites for knowing the truths concerning God. The natural pursuit of God through God's grace can be accomplished by revealing the mysterious proportionality of Divine Genesis. The paradox of the philosophical approach is revealed in the precise determination both of the value and of the limits of the rational knowledge of God. God is his object and, along with it, his boundary, the ultimate goal and the reality that puts him in question.
The goal of philosophy is to prove God, but only by recognizing the possibilities of its own competence, it can achieve certain degrees of true God-science. To the extent that it refuses to acknowledge its limits, the God it reaches is no longer the real God. Obviously, as St. Gregory of Nyssey claims, since God is higher than any definition, one who thinks that God is logically defined leads to the incorrect conclusion of the knowledge of the inmost nature of God. The problem of God reveals the inner contradiction of philosophy. Thus, the Absolute Genesis justifies the existence of philosophy, and along with that its place is also determined. Still, the harmonious attitude that defines the position of philosophy - from the point of view of Christianity - is rejected by many philosophical schools. It proceeds from the premise that philosophy will not be able to defend its meaning if it is not the full explanation of being in its impossibility if it is not the complete higher knowledge. No principle is recognized that would not be fully recognizable. And it is precisely such a kind of perfect madness that is called God. This godly intellectual god of philosophers can be fully opposed to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This false god is not God who recognizes the intellect, he is an idol of rationalism.
the superman! 😁 . some say it's a controlled chaos.