You can only ever talk about God in a negative way. God is transcendent so you cannot say what God is however you can say what he is not: God is good and by this statement we mean God is not evil.
Maimondes developed Plontinus idea in the 4th century.
Maimondes rejected all language and all attempts at understanding which portrayed God in any anthropomorphic sense.
He rejected phrases that attempted to apply human understanding of things such as love which is restricted by time and space, to a God who is beyond these restrictions.
He pointed out that humans can know that God exists but not know anything about God because God is not a human.
Maimondes suggested that this way of talking about God is found in the Jewish scripture, where God is described as 'I am who i am': He is beyond description.
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