Thank you for the apophatic theology question regarding God, “In apophatic theology, can God be likened to the image, created in 2017 by the Event Horizon Telescope, of a black hole 6.5 billion times more massive than the sun, in which we see a center surrounded by a crown of light?
The subject of the nature of God is difficult to describe in human terms. The Scripture depicts or reflects that God is spirit or that God is light. God uses anthropomorphic expressions in which humans can relate to God. God doesn’t have hands and feet, eye or ears. Those terms helps us to know that God perceives us or acts in our behalf. God has appeared in certain forms in the past even as angels has appeared to man.
In my opinion and it is only a opinion, that one can use that description of God. Would that be a full description of God? No, it would be a partial depiction of an aspect of God perhaps something like his glory or brilliance. If God can make a black hole of that nature, then what is his nature truly like. Words can’t depict the nature of God nor can a photo be adequate in conveying the nature of God.
Isaiah and the Apostle John gives the readers a glimpse of what heaven is like and the nature of God. The brilliance of God is so great that not even the angels can fully look at the nature of God. Can a telescope capture such a photo of it? Can an instrument be used to detect or measure the glory of God? I would like to think that it is possible for astronomers are able to detect the first moment of the Big Bang. Would they be able to detect the moments before the Big Bang? It seems reasonable to me. The measurement of that light or the glory of God would not enable man to “see” God. They would see the expressions of God but not God himself for God is not made of any material like in our universe. My comments are theoretical.
Thanks for the thought.
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