***As Kosta point out, we are utterly incapable of knowing God’s essence/nature...there is no earthly reason why you should ascribe to the theology of The Church, but before you presume to characterize it, you ought at least to become marginally familiar with it.***
I’m always willing to learn more about Greek theology, K.
Let me point out I agree completely with the following quote from John of Damascus:
“God is... one essence (ousia); and that he is known and has his being in three subsistences... and that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one in all respects, except in that of not being begotten, that of being begotten, and that of procession....But neither do we know, nor can we tell, what the essence (ousia) of God is, or how it is in all.... It is not within our capacity, therefore, to say anthing about God or even think of him, beyond the things which have been divinely revealed to us, whether by word or by manifestation, by the divine oracles at once of the Old Testament and of the New.”
-The Orthodox Faith 1.4
“I’m always willing to learn more about Greek theology, K.”
Centuries before +John of Damascus, the Cappadocian Fathers, in discussing God using apophatic theology, said “I believe in God; God does not “exist”.” Its a provocative statement at first blush, but if you think about it and about God, it is of course perfectly true and in a way speaks about an uncreated energy of God, though perhaps it says more about the source and nature of “existence” than it does about God Himself.