John 4:24"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."St. Thomas, On Separate Substances (De substantiis) c 19. “Scripture habitually designates something [to be] incorporeal through the name spirit.”Key Takeaways:1. Holy Scripture makes us to say many names/predicates about God. The first and fundamental distinction that organizes all divine names is whether we affirm or negate these predicates of God, saying either "God is [insert predicate]" or "God is not [insert predicate]."2. A Positive Divine Name is an affirmation about God. For example, "God is love." "God is wise." "God is good." etc.3. A Negative Divine Name is a negation about God. For example, "God is not a body." "God is not finite." "God is not composed of parts." etc.4. In theology and in Holy Scripture, many negative names are stated periphrastically (restated) in positive terms. For example, "God is a spirit" sounds like a positive name, but it is actually identical in meaning to the negation, "God is not a body." 5. We must be careful then to not "positivize" our negative names. We must remember that saying "God is not a body" or "God is incorporeal" or "God is a spirit," are all negative names that tell us nothing about God except what He is not.For further reading on Incorporeality:https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.I.Q3.A1https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~SCG1.C20

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