““No Assertions Can Be Made of God’s Essence Who is capable of asserting of the Primal Cause that it is incorporeal or corporeal, or that it possesses quality or is qualityless, or, in general, who could make a firm statement concerning his essence or quality or state or movement? He alone will make dogmatic assertions regarding himself, since he alone has unerringly precise knowledge of his own nature.””
![“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.” quote by Alfred Jules Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/381/alfred-jules-ayer-88219_animism_it-is-now-generally-admitted-at-any-rate_1668276.jpg)
![“Though such an explicit contradiction is no doubt bewildering, Calvin’s final conclusion—namely, that the author of 1 John “does not speak of the essence [or the nature] of God” remains just what his overall theological perspective requires. So let us now consider the exegetical merits of this…” quote by Thomas Talbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1a0/thomas-talbott-31141_father-son_though-such-an-explicit-contradiction-is_2727488.jpg)