God’s titles
On the issue of God’s titles, there are two central reasons given by the Rambam for which he rules out the possibility of a definition or description (which, to the best of my knowledge, the rabbi thinks can be said) of God,
1. God is the cause of causes and the fulfiller; he does not depend on anything because he is the cause of everything. If so, stating a definition will create complexity, since when I talk about a definition that is part of him, then it applies to him equally.
2. Nothing can be said about God who is in a different category than me. It’s like talking about cm in colors. Two different categories. Since God created time and matter, then He doesn’t belong in that.
So two main questions:
1. Is it even possible to say a definition or description?
2. Is there any meaning to the statement, for example, when I say God exists, is the concept of existence that exists in it the same concept as ours?
I would be happy to elaborate. Thank you very much.
I will say in advance that the theory of the denial of degrees is unacceptable to me, and therefore the premise of the discussion is omitted from my perspective. In addition, I did not understand the first argument you brought in favor of the denial of degrees.
- I didn’t understand the question.
- Existence is neither a property nor a description. It is a statement about the thing itself, not a description of it. See the first notebook on this.
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