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The mystery of Almighty God is most properly an explication of the oneness of God, tying the faith of the church to the bedrock of Israel’s confession of the lord of the covenant, the lord of our Lord Jesus Christ. The doctrine of divine attributes, then, is set out as a reflection on Holy Scripture: the One God as omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient, and all these as expressions of the Love...

that Moses does not see the Lord, but rather the fiery bush. He hears the Divine Voice. Yet the text is clear that Moses bends low, turns his face to the ground, so that he does not look upon the Lord. So, we must say that the Lord God, the One Who Is, is invisibily present, seen not directly but indirectly in the creature that abides His Holy Flame. The God-world relation, then, cannot be fundamentally paradoxical. We do not face the dilemma of uniting a God to our cosmos who cannot in truth or
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