Belief in God

The divine infallibility. Man can have true knowledge of God, and that is belief.

The God he believes can be seen and recognized through his works of creation and the wonders he created to his creatures. And so, the knowledge of God is just within the human existence genuine in its character.

The comprehensibility of God because he is infinitely intelligible is considered as a maximum act of the divine existence. God as an infinite and incomprehensible being does not mean that he is unknown.

Human intelligence has the capacity to know the existence of God as a cause on the part of the created creatures.

However, though he is unknown by man as cause of all things God cannot be known by the aspect of His divine matter and form. The knowledge that man has regarding God is through observable matters in analogical sense of the form found in creatures.

God is the primary cause of creatures and creatures are just effects of such cause. The effects of such perfection, in absolute sense, manifest the perfection of the attributed cause. The knowledge of God in the human experience is a positive experience.

God gave being and existence to creatures and when he gave that existence he gave some of his similarities and dissimilarities with infinite metaphysical differences.

What man has believed in God, there is always a kind of affirmation. A kind of eminence and a kind of negation, when God is applied and understood as part of the perfection that man has observed in things, it is kind of affirmation. When God is negated with significant limitation in his perfection in an affirmative way, it is a kind of negation.

There is such a thing as divine infallibility. Man’s knowledge in God is limited and imperfect. God being by nature is transcendent and incomprehensible, he cannot be described totally in words. All the descriptions that man utters regarding God cannot completely describe the real being and existence of God. The descriptions is just the product of man’s experience, but God is far beyond human experiences. He cannot be explained in words is absolute in nature. He is God, though transcendent and incomprehensible can still be known and described but in a manner that is something him according to his perfection. When it says, “modes of God’s significance” it refers to the important and significant transcendence of God which for man to affirm, to negate and to acknowledge His eminence.

Here are the formal composition of God in His being and existence.

He is simple and only. He is not composed, not doubled, not duplicated, he is not complicated, and he absolutely has no conditions.

He is perfect and full of goodness. He has the quality of being perfect in all and of all possible goodness and excellence. He does things better and create it perfectly.

He is infinite, omnipotent and full of immensity. He can never have an end and termination. He is great and enormous in whatever matter. He has the greater value of all. He is immeasurable, his extension is infinite. He is powerful. He can be in all possible or in all possibilities.

He does not change, he can never change. He is not mutable. He has no alteration in His being and existence.

He has unity. He has the quality of being unique.  He is the only no other else. He is extraordinary and excellent.

-Carlou Manasis