Brief Note on Remotion
“Now, because we cannot know what God is, but rather what He is not, we have no means for considering how God is, but rather how He is not. Now it can be shown how God is not, by denying Him whatever is opposed to the idea of Him.” (Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1, q.3, intro.)
The idea “we cannot know God” is contradicted by Scripture:
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." Matt 7:7-8
“No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.” Matt 11:27
“For there is nothing hidden that will not…