Is all God talk just games ?

“We are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar”

- Nietzsche

Is all God talk just games ? Are we trapped in language, truth forever inaccessible ? Are there things with essences ?

Theistic and neoplatonic thought take God as the transcendent ground of which reality is the manifestation, and is a working out of the intelligibility of being, its conformity to the structure of thought (“grammar”).

Thus the great Platonist Eric Perls says,

"The alternative to the principle that to be is to be intelligible is nihilism.

If reality is not as thought must apprehend it, then there is no such thing as reality.

Conversely, if thought is not the apprehension of being, then all thought, in that it never apprehends being, is illusory.

As the alternative to this ultimately nihilistic, scientific- technological stance toward being, St Dionysius offers a contemplative-liturgical stance in which being is not an object for mastery and exploitation but a gift which is received only in being given. "

The intelligibility of the world and the power of thought to lay hold of it is a fact - I do not know how to explain science or mathematics without it.

The world is poetic before it is rational, rhetorical before dialectical…

That the inherently formal and intentional structure of rational thought corresponds so fruitfully to the rational structure of the world, to me, is an indication that something LIKE the causal language proposed in the Aristotelian tradition, in which nature’s deepest rational relations are more like the syntax of a sentence, or mathematical equations, than like mere accidental concrescences of physical forces.

The discrete processes nature, in itself, has something like the structure of intentional thought.

And, if it is correct to understand “being” as in some sense necessarily synonymous with manifestation for intelligibility—and it is—then the God who is also always Logos is also eternal Being.