Does God being personal with us and keeping in communication with us diminish his 'Godliness'?

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God is supposed to be all powerful, all knowing, and completely beyond our comprehension.

Does the fact that we are able to communicate with him and him with us ‘diminish’ his incomprehensible and absolutely superior nature?

There are other religions that claim he is not personal and can’t be imagined, communicated with, or even worshiped because he is beyond our comprehension.
 
The Incarnation is a great event to meditate on when we want to contemplate God’s nature and how it does and does not meet our own. What could be more personal than God becoming man?

And perhaps a better question is “Can God diminish in holiness?”
 
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The Incarnation is a great event to meditate on when we want to contemplate God’s nature and how it does and does not meet our own. What could be more personal than God becoming man?

And perhaps a better question is “Can God diminish in holiness?”

Wow… Very well stated
 
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Thanks! But I give the credit to Benedict 16, he’s the one who got me hooked on contemplating the Incarnation.
 
the words the priest uses the phrase: “through the mystery of this water and wine may we share in the Divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share our humanity” says it all. He humbled himself. I could ponder this for eternity and never really understand why.
 
So the only way we can comprehend him and personalize him to begin with is because HE revealed himself to us? Not US ‘finding’ him?
 
Don’t think you can imagine or remember God.
You can experience His presence tho.
We are created for interpersonal love relationships
You knew that didn’t you ??

“Behold this Heart, which has loved men so much, that it has
spared nothing, even to exhausting & consuming itself, to testify to them of its love!”
 
No, it doesn’t. He communicates with us is because He loves us. He is a living God, not a dead god, that does not communicate with us. All along the centuries, God has never stopped communicating with us.

God bless.
 
Rather, it increases His Godliness. All other religions are man-made, thus one of their dominating influences is envy.
 
What’s amazing about God, as Jesus revealed Him to be, is that He’s very different from the idea of God we sort of automatically default to. That God is distant, aloof in His superiority, angry, etc, sort of the god we play when ego reigns and we abuse our authority over others. He’s the “distorted image” of God that man conceived of at the Fall, as the catechism teaches. But as we come to know the true God, that knowledge being part of Jeremiah’s New Covenant prophecy in Jer 31:34, we begin to see Him differently-and we come to see that enmity always came from man, not Him. His nature is actually described well in 1 Cor 13, where the virtue of love is described.

As Jesus revealed, God definitively exists, first of all; He’s infinitely good, merciful, forgiving, trustworthy and true; God is even humble, amazingly, and loves man lavishly. Our God, our hero, placed Himself on a cross, suffering an excruciatingly humiliating and painful death to prove the extent He’d go to for us, to prove His love, in spite of our sin, and then resurrected to prove that this love, His goodness, is eternal, and will be experienced eternally by us as we follow Him on that same path of love as well. A very counter-intuitive hero, not the stuff this world’s superstars are made of, thank God!
 
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Like it has been already said here, the Incarnation increases awe of God. His greatness is more understood because of it. as St. John Paul II said “could God stoop any lower?”. The Incarnation reveals unfathomable love.
Love as we could never know otherwise. God is love. That is revealed by the Incarnation.
 
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God’s giving us the ability to communicate with him through prayer, and especially his incarnation, do not diminish Him in any way but instead lift us up, above other creatures, to a new and higher level.
 
No it only increases it, expanding it as it were into more minds as we appreciate it.
 
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