Hobbes

For Hobbes, his ideas of sensory imagination caught my attention specifically in chapter III. He writes, “a man can have no thought representing anything not subject to sense” (Hobbes 15). Pertaining to religion, this claim has influence over me. When imagining God, the most common thing seems to be to personify. We furthermore describe him with sensory perception. Hobbes claims that this is a limitation because our sensory perceptions are essentially limitations thus making us finite in comparison to something infinite, something that transcends and surpasses the sensory perceptions of the human mind. God in his actual nature cannot be comprehended through a human and finite capacity.  Yet, in chapter XII Of Religion, Hobbes claims that men “by their own meditation arrive to the acknowledgement of one infinite, omnipotent, and eternal God, choose rather to confess he is incomprehensible, and above their understanding…” (Hobbes 65). I am reminded By Kierkengaard’s infinite resignation. It is not possible to know God completely, but even in our finiteness, we can give reverence to this omnipotent and infinite God because according to Hobbes, “ God is kind of all the earth” (71). This led me to questions of how one then pays tribute to God while being finite, limited to sensory perception. Through art?If arts goal is to imitate nature then is it imitating God being that he is omnipotent?