S1E6: What to remember when speaking about God (What do you mean by God? 2)

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What are we doing when we think or speak about God? Is it even possible that human words or concepts can truly describe the "Infinite Reality," which is God? More to the point, isn't Christian description of God anthropomorphism, wrongly attributing human characteristic to Reality that is beyond us? The classical Christian answer is that everything we say of God comes with this caveat; everything we humans can say of God is necessarily inadequate. But, they are nevertheless true--true as "analogies."  What does that mean?

The answer to this is what we would need to keep in mind whenever we talk about God as we go forward in this series. 

00:00   Introduction
02:47   Dao de Jing and the Bible on Reality beyond words
07:42   All talk of God is "analogical"
10:43   When do we need to use analogies?  
14:55   Analogies to describe Reality & God
16:50   How we discover the "appropriate" names of God       

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