Reply #113: But ineffability is a two edged sword [View All]

[dmallind]

I find it strange that believers get to the unknowable mystery gambit very quickly when theodicy is under discussion, and yet are often much slower to claim ineffability when the question is what God wants from us or how we should live.

If God is truly unable to be comprehended (which I would say is pretty much a certainty if we postulate anything worthy of the name. How COULD we understand it? Ants can't understand polyphonic harmony or microbiology and surely there's a bigger difference between us andGod tahn between ants and ourselves) then he is by definition irrelevant since we can never know what he wants from us, what he rewards or punishes, how he is or is not involved or even interested in our lives, any more than ants know what we want from them when we have formiaries.

You can't have it both ways. If God is a mystery we cannot understand, then that has to extend beyond apologetics in theodicy.