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God In John Of Damascus's Exposition Of Orthodox Faith

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In John of Damascus's Exposition of Orthodox Faith, he discusses what Man can know of God’s nature. John begins by establishing that the only persons that can fully comprehend God are his three persons—God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. No human, throughout history, has ever seen God—let alone comprehend Him. However, Man may have knowledge about God through His creation. What Man cannot know of God from creation, he can find from the revealed in the Holy Scriptures which the Prophets and the Saints used as they prophesied and evangelized. From creation and scripture, Man can know that He is good, uncreated, unchangeable, good, just, maker of all things, all-powerful, and Judge of all, and more. What knowledge that God has hidden from himself is for good. This truth is evident because God is good and cannot do evil. Man should be content with what he can know of God. Through nature alone, Man may know there is …show more content…

God says in the law, “I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.” Again, in another section of Exodus, He says, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord thy God is One Lord.” Not only do the law affirms that God is one, but that he is the only God. “I am,” says God through the mouth of Isaiah the prophet “the first God and I am the last and there is no God besides me. Before me there was no God and after me there shall be none, and beside me there is none.” Even without the Holy Scriptures, Man may know the oneness of God. Divinity must be both perfect and without deficiency in goodness, wisdom, and power. There cannot be more than on god because each god would be deficient in one of these three areas. Another reason why there can’t be more than one God is because they would not be circumscribed. And lastly, there would bound to be conflict amongst the divine. Since such divine conflict evidently does not exist, there must be only one

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