In light of the fact that created beings, in virtue of their limitations, can mirror the divine goodness only in limited respects, God creates a variety of things, each of which has an essence that reflects a different facet of divine perfection in its own unique way.
Once we appeal to the gap between our limited knowledge and God's omniscience, we cannot move from what we think God will do to what he will in fact do.
It would have been a much more interesting read had it limited itself to "God".
Until we get such a machine we'll probably have to plug along as usual, with the limited mental endowment God gave us.
But it also seems, from our limited viewpoint, that God would not permit things like the Holocaust or the death of innocent children from painful diseases.
Christ unites the first two as the Maximum at once absolute-and-contracted. "Contraction" is a metaphor for the finite status of creatures, all of whom are limited images of God.
In the final chapter (42), Job admits his ignorance and limited perspective about God, accepts his suffering and is silenced.
" Making an hasty assumption based on limited research about God or the Bible gets you nothing but the wrong truth.
Most atheists I've encountered, Hitchens included, have an extremely limited concept of what God might even be, as they exist in reaction specifically to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic god as revealed by through current religious power structures.
Despite the powerful criticisms of the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711 76)—e.g., that the evidence is compatible with a large number of hypotheses, such as polytheism or a god of limited power, that are as plausible as or more plausible than monotheism the argument from design continued to be very popular in the 19th century.
