Another group does not understand anything of God's beautiful attributes...

Another group does not understand anything of God's beautiful attributes; consequently it reduces all divine attributes to negatives. It says that the names and adjectives, which are used for both God and His creatures, have quite different mean­ings in both cases. When we say, “God is Existent, Knowing, Powerful and Alive”, the words denote some divine qualities totally incomprehensible to us, completely different from the meanings they have when they are applied to a human being.

Therefore, it is necessary to reduce these words to their negatives. What the above sentence, for example, means is this: “God is not non-existent, not unaware, not powerless and not lifeless.” Such explanation implies that they believe in that which they do not understand,…