The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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