/lit/ - Literature

>>23366311
God transcends limitations. He is simple and indivisible, and His attributes are unified. He is also immanent, with His infinity participating in finitude. The distinguishing characteristics and specifics are there to guide us towards God. Positive theology affirms attributes of God, for example, by saying that God is love. However, these attributes do not provide an exhaustive account of God. This is one reason why negative theology is more pronounced in Eastern Orthodoxy. God is not finite, not material, not mortal, and not human love. While we can label anything as God, it is only when we worship things that we engage in idolatry. When understanding God as being of the wager, you are stuck in a conceptual account. The wager is simply a way to understand God and not a definitive encapsulation of what God is. Union with God, or theosis, is attained through katharsis, or purification, and theoria, or illumination. The wager can help purify the mind by putting things in an ordered perspective through ascribing an economic weight to them. Pascal wasn't a saint, though.

sounds about right

>Greece
>hasn't a basic understanding of ancient greek
>hasn't at least a basic understanding of byzantine culture and art
> doesn't know who Kondylis, Kastoriadis, Axelos, Liantinis, Pleyris or Giannaras is

I'm about to go into my room and shut the door and pray to my Father who is in secret; and my Father who sees in secret will reward me
what am I in for?

>>14410316
>>14410328
Merry Christmas Schizoposter!

An alternate conception of God is the Orthodox Essence-Energies distinction which would allow God a mechanism via energies to have potency in the created universe without necessitating all potentials be actualised or occasionalism.
https://orthodoxword.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/vladimir-lossky-on-the-essence-and-energies-of-god/

>>7474182
All is redeemed by Christ.

Why is it that so many OT characters like Abraham, Isaac and even King David are cowardly, frightened and often deceitful.

While Jesus and later the Apostles in Acts and the epistolary literature have conviction, courage and always speak truthfully? Did the OT characters not trust in God?

>>7455744
The truth.