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What I call the Almighty God, even though He cannot be seen and cannot be heard, His virtue does not rest on His being unseeable and unhearable.
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The speaker calls God “the Almighty God” while acknowledging that God cannot be seen or heard. The main point is that God’s virtue does not depend on being beyond human senses. In other words, invisibility and silence are described as qualities of God, not as the reason God is virtuous.
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- University of Washington, “China’s Oppositions to Western Religion and Science”
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