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A better theologian than myself wrote these words .. which were included in the posting which has been brought into question and I have since removed. I am sorry if my blog posting caused offence.

“In the light of God’s self disclosure in Christ as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, it is necessary to say that speech about God is made possible by virtue of God’s own speech and not otherwise. We do not decide in advance that flesh and blood cannot reveal the truth of God. There are no a priori grounds for such an assertion, or indeed for the converse claim that humanity does have the capacity to render God accessible. Only in the light of the fact that God has spoken, and reveals Himself as the Lord, do we learn the He is sovereign over the relation between humanity and himself.” “God’s revelation in its objective reality is the incarnation of the Word ... It becomes the object of our knowledge; it finds a way of becoming the content of our experience, and our thought; it gives itself to be apprehended by our contemplation and our categories. But it does that beyond the range of what we regard as possible for our contemplation and perception; beyond the confines of our experience and thought. It becomes the object of our knowledge by its own power and not ours.”