@neofugue Energies is merely talking about presence or manifestation of God’s essence. This already means this does not touch upon God “internally” (to use a metaphor) at all. The usage of the exemplar argument by even Jay Dyer of all people supports this. Claiming that this contradicts the fact that God is without differentiated parts is irrelevant because they’re both touching on two different points in the first place. And if anything, the fact that God ”internally” is entirely simple also tells us why God must be known through energies, or presence, or manifestation.

Also, Jay Dyer’s coherentism is ultimately wrong. It makes reason self-referential. So telling me “in this system this works” is not going to convince me. It basically means “accept any system as long as it internally coheres”. Saying that only Orthodoxy offers a fully coherent system is an entirely ad hoc sleight of hand to mask the fact that in principle, coherentism means any system can be chosen as long as it internally coheres.