Theosophy

When I was in college, I was required to take an intro course in philosophy.  It’s a liberal arts school and such a requirement is to be expected.  The problem was in the curriculum.
The very first section of the course examined whether or not God exists.  The section ended by determining that may God existed, maybe he didn’t.  The implication was that thinking people could doubt God’s existence.  Then the rest of the course went on a path assuming that there was no higher moral authority than man.

In retrospect, I wish I could go back and point out one major flaw in the course’s reasoning: that utilizing the thoughts of man (philosophy), one can possibly hope to understand the thoughts of God (theosophy).  In other words, how can the thoughts of a finite mind comprehend the reasoning of an infinite being?  Yes, we can glimpse parts of God’s thought process (interesting thought in itself – since God is already all-knowing, does he actually have a thought process?) because he wants us to know him.

I don’t have a problem with a philosophy course not wanting to say for certain that God exists.  After all, the focus on such a course is human thought.  I do have a problem with a course proceeding as if nothing exists greater that man.