07-13-2024, 06:37 PM
This sort of post is kinda up my alley.
The language of philosophy sometimes doesn't help the discussion, because it doesn't nicely explicate the relationship a believer has with God. Philosopher will tend to throw God into the "object" category because His essence is ineffable, despite how He has revealed Himself in scripture and to us personally. The "war" against objective reality you talk about with modern philosophy is probably a way of self-soothing after centuries of failing to correctly apprehend God with reasoning tools and the assumptions western minds have about what's knowable. Yes, God could be considered an object in the sense that He exists, but what does that tell us? Not much, and it's an assumption that an object such as God could be apprehended satisfactorily in the way philosophers want.
I think your crisis had something to do with the limits of language--you maybe had trouble explaining to yourself your belief in God, even though you "knew" outside of the constraints of your language what you believed? Your thoughts were English isn't set up very well to talk about the supernatural domain without the fallacy of being too precise.
The language of philosophy sometimes doesn't help the discussion, because it doesn't nicely explicate the relationship a believer has with God. Philosopher will tend to throw God into the "object" category because His essence is ineffable, despite how He has revealed Himself in scripture and to us personally. The "war" against objective reality you talk about with modern philosophy is probably a way of self-soothing after centuries of failing to correctly apprehend God with reasoning tools and the assumptions western minds have about what's knowable. Yes, God could be considered an object in the sense that He exists, but what does that tell us? Not much, and it's an assumption that an object such as God could be apprehended satisfactorily in the way philosophers want.
I think your crisis had something to do with the limits of language--you maybe had trouble explaining to yourself your belief in God, even though you "knew" outside of the constraints of your language what you believed? Your thoughts were English isn't set up very well to talk about the supernatural domain without the fallacy of being too precise.