Received,
True enough. You make a good point. BUT, which divine concepts take the priority? The idea of a "priority" of divine characteristics/concepts seems to not be present in the typical philosophical taxonomy that has been considered through the ages. Not so with the Jews; there does seem to be a priority. Additionally, the way in which Scripture presents the divine characteristics seems to indicate that we are to some extent to recognize that the divine definitions and their attending connotations are what God wants us to know, not simply those that we ask for or wish to 'delve into.' For instance, when God tells Mary that "with God all things are possible," the intent of the statement does not seem to be to tell us--the reading audience--that God can to anything, but rather that God can do all things that He proposes according to His will, and from a Christian point of view, that is the context in which we are to 'enter into' our delving of God's characteristics.
No, but instead, we get willy-nilly philosophers stating something like, "I know what omnipotence is, and it is such and such, and THIS and only THIS is what it is, and this is all we will permit it to be; the denotation displayed on the table, so to speak, is what we want it to be, not what God wants us to understand that it is.
Peace
