n0mesorah: As I am unsure of which article/book you recently perused in regards to Herder, but the term noun and verb in this context is wholly unhelpful. Where for Spinoza God had two attributes, and both were static (hence the ‘noun’), for Herder God had one attribute in an infinite expression. This attribute was in line with the ‘vitalistic’ mode of being, similar to Leibniz’ Monads, (hence the ‘verb’). However, by necessity, this God too is impersonal, and although unlike Spinoza it did not preclude a teleological cause there was still no freedom of choice.
Hence, a personal God and free will was denied by default through Herders philosophy. Clearly ‘philosophical apostasy’.
Furthermore, by reading holy scripture as literature there is a denial of metaphysical truths inherent in scripture, for it is naught but a creation tied to the time and place of its inception.
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