is how the case is put throughout Scripture and all of theology. And when a shallow rationalism considered a fully adequate knowledge of God a possibility, Christian theology always opposed the idea in the strongest terms. According to Socrates Scholasticus, Eunominus, a follower of Arius, is said to have taught that he knew God equally well as himself.51 God’s being, according to him, consisted solely in his “uncreatedness” (ἀγεννησια), and this idea gave him a clear, distinct, and fully adequate