Philo's description of God, or at least how the human perception should be of God, to me is spot on. In Part 2, he says that, "All perfection is entirely relative, so we ought never to imagine that we understand the attributes of this divine being, or to suppose that his perfections are in any way analogous or similar to the perfections of a human creature." In all actuality, we as humans are not even close to perfect (Isaiah 55:8-9). We have such a limited ability of understanding and there is no possible way that humans could ever understand the ways of God. After all, as Philo so perfectly put it, " Our ideas reach no further than our experience."
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I agree with you. Phil's perspective was very logical. Experience is completely necessary in order to understand. We wouldn't even begin to formulate many ideas without experience.
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