A portion from something I'm currently writing,

"Logical impossibility “This car is red and this car is not red”.
Conceptual impossibility “This bachelor is married”.
Metaphysical impossibility “You have someone else’s consciousness”.
Nomological impossibility “an electron has more mass than a proton”"

I would like to make a few general remarks about divine revelation as they occur to me. God has revealed Himself to human beings in nature and His Word. We have not yet analyzed the similarities and connections between both of these revelations so extensively and explained so clearly, nor have we penetrated into this harmony, so that sound philosophy could open up a wide field for itself. In countless instances both revelations must be rescued in the same way from the greatest objections to them. Both revelations explain and support each other; they cannot contradict each other, no matter how much the interpretations of our reason would like to claim that they do. Rather, it is the greatest contradiction and abuse of reason when reason itself wishes to reveal anything. A philosopher who puts the divine Word away from his eyes in order to please reason, is like the Jews who seem to cling more rigidly to the Old Testament the more obstinately they reject the New Testament. In them the prophecy was fulfilled that what was meant to confirm and complete their other insights is an offense and foolishness in their eyes. The study of nature and history are the two pillars of true religion. Unbelief and superstition are based on shallow physics and shallow history. Nature is as little subject to blind accident or to eternal laws as all events can be explained in personal and political terms. Newton is deeply moved as a historian by the wise omnipotence of God and equally so as a scientist by God’s wise government.10

Hamann, Johann Georg. London Writings: The Spiritual & Theological Journal of Johann Georg Hamann (p. 55). Ballast Press. Kindle Edition.

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Acts 17:21-22 Curiosity is a kind of superstition and idolatry. Socrates, on whom the fashionable philosophers agreed to confer the title of a wise man, confessed that he knew nothing. Solomon, to whom the Spirit of God awarded this title with greater justification, has left us a testimony in Ecclesiastes that is even sadder. Nothing new —— and labor, sorrow, pain to be wise. The father of the new philosophy was forced to forget, renounce, and reject all that he knew and regarded this as the only means to discover the truth. Yet this truth is also nothing but an edifice of re-polished and reclaimed errors. If curiosity is a mother or wet-nurse of knowledge, we can easily draw a conclusion about its fruit from its root and sap.

Hamann, Johann Georg. London Writings: The Spiritual & Theological Journal of Johann Georg Hamann (p. 343). Ballast Press. Kindle Edition.

This refers to the French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes (1596-1650 AD) and his Meditations on the Foundations of Philosophy. In this famous thought experiment, he attempted to forget all that he knew and so abstracted his mind from his body and its senses in a quest for intellectual certainty. He concluded that he could be certain about nothing except himself as a thinker.

"Little knowledge is dangerous... "

NB: This is mainly for Ethiopian religious and heathen community that comment about theology and philosophy. We know too little to comment about those fields. If your course of study is in Economics, Law, Psychiatry or meds, please confine yourself to those areas of study. You can't be an expert on Theology and philosophy from TikTok, YouTube videos and short stuffs with no formal study. Thanks for listening.

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