[Aquinasfan]

Your idea of God derives from first principles? It sounds more to me like unquestioning belief in the Bible. "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it."

Not so?

The God of the Philosophers* is also the God of the Bible. Therefore, reason cannot contradict revelation. Aquinas synthesized the best of natural philosophy (Aristotle) with divine revelation, and Christ's Church regards St. Thomas Aquinas as the premier theological doctor of the Church. That's where I'm coming from.

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*(Acts 17:23) For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

[jimt]

We appear to have reached the bottom line in this discussion. Sophistry aside, it's "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it".

There is no logical reply to that position.