shuffling the ontological deck of cards

In the Summa Theologiae, Prima Pars, Q. 2, A.1 
Aquinas says clearly that we do not know the essence of God, 
but we can prove that the essence of God “exists.” 
To say we can only know “about” God 
might make people think 
we think our knowledge 
is vague and generalized like the pagans.
 I would say it differently. 
It is still a knowledge ‘about God’.... 
Aquinas says somewhere that
 we only know the truth of the proposition: 
God exists...through causality, a posteriori. 
I say, that what we are ever knowing 
is the being of God
 and that we cannot not know the very being of God
 right within the effects that we know
 in everyday experience. 
But the knowledge of God’s very being
 is largely or totally unconscious (spiritually). 
No wonder folks fail to distinguish 
the ‘existence of God’ and the being of God!
 Good old cosmologic lock! 


                         Robert E. Joyce, PhD






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