Against every attempt to make God relevant or identify God with a cause or conceive God as a knowable object of thought, Barth insisted that God's actuality is prior to the logical form of contradiction. (religion-online.org)
That the gods men make, in their thought and action (false gods or idols, in other words), must always die so that the true object of thought and action, the true God, might emerge, come to life, be born anew. (religion-online.org)
In the words of Aristotle, «everything is a possible object of thought,» and «the soul is in a way all existing things.» (faith.org.uk)