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* Made in the image of God, man is capable of understanding God's knowledge, but...
* Made in the image of God, man is capable of understanding God's knowledge, but...
** God's knowledge is shielded by man's incomplete perception of it
** God's knowledge is shielded from man by man's incomplete perception of it
** and, worse, further misguided by sin.
** and, worse, further misguided by sin.


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* God can be understood by reason
* God's knowledge can be understood by reason (by men)
* yet reason has obstacles to that understanding of God
* God "watches over and controls the world"
*The relation between God and man goes beyond what can be observed ("visible order of things")
* yet man's reason has obstacles to that understanding
*if they can be part of man's experience, man must submit to God ("they call for self-surrender and abnegation")
*Man's reason ("the human mind") cannot easily attain "such truths"
*Man's reason ("the human mind") cannot easily attain "such truths"  
**because the relation between God and man goes beyond what can be observed ("visible order of things")
**"impacted" (hampered) by senses (what man imperfectly perceives) and imagination (what man imagines or dreams of)
**as it is "impacted" (hampered) by senses (what man imperfectly perceives) and imagination (what man imagines or dreams of)
**"disordered" (negatively impacted by) "appetites" (desires) that "are the consequences of original sin."
*to begin to perceive God's truths (that go beyond what can be seen by man), man must "transcend" or get beyond what is seen in "human action"
**"self-surrender and abnegation" (renouncing man's conceit) are required
*worse, man's perceptions are "disordered" (negatively impacted by) "appetites" (desires) that "are the consequences of original sin."
*so when man false short of pure reason (incorrect perception, sin, etc.)
*so when man false short of pure reason (incorrect perception, sin, etc.)
**they convince ("easily persuade") themselves that what they don't want to be true (God's word) is not true, or "doubtful" (likely not true)
**he convinces ("easily persuade") himself that what he doesn't want to be true (God's word) is not true, or "doubtful" (likely not true)
**i.e. = he fools himself
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