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RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Although God is completely different from the universe, there is a casual relationship between him and the universe, since God is creator
        
        Because God created the world, he is revealed through it and this gives a point of comparison
        
        We can know what it is for a person to be good or wise and from the way God is revealed in the world, we can use these words to describe Him.
      - 'the bull is healthy and the bull's urine is healthy'
        
        as its urine is healthy we can conclude that the bull has an analogous quality of health even if we cant see the bull
        
        Similarly, we humans have qualities like power, love and knowledge, so we can conclude that our creator (God) also has qualities of power, love and knowledge that are analogous to ours.
      - From this we can conclude that:
        
        although we have no idea what it means for god to be good, we can conclude that good is meaningful
    - - Both a human being and God may be described as powerful
        
        but the meaning od powerful in each case is proportional to their respective natures
        
        equally an ant is powerful in being able to move a leaf, but it's power doesnt match that of the human being who accidentally treads on it
      - This illustrates that different being have a quality like life to different degrees of proportion depending on their being
        
        God is the greatest being and thus has qualities to a greater degree of proportion than humans
        
        Thus we can now add to our statement that God has qualities analogous to ours that he has them in greater proportion.
        
        So God’s love/knowledge/power is like ours but proportionally greater.