RE: A timeless being cannot create
July 20, 2019 at 9:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2019 at 9:16 am by Bucky Ball.)
(July 17, 2019 at 4:27 am)Belaqua Wrote: I don't know if you want to put in a lot of time on this. I wouldn't blame you if you didn't. But all these questions have been worked on for a long time, and there are very involved and careful answers. You can be sure all the obvious questions ["if everything has a cause, then what caused god?"] have serious answers, though surprisingly few people have bothered to look into them. I think you'll find in fact that a lot of people prefer to mock the whole issue rather than learn anything at all.
If you go to this site and start clicking links, it will give a taste of how careful explanations have been offered.
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/1044.htm#article1
Seriously ... you offer Aquinas ? He who could not think outside his Medieval world-view ?
There is nothing in the thought of Aquinas that offers ANY unique advancement in human thought. Nothing.
(Except that maybe he pointed out that the reason the serpent went to Eve first, was that the "light of reason shone less brightly in her". LOL)
They are worthless explanations. ALL his explanations are based on (in virtually every sentence) what he observed on the macro level in this universe.
He didn't even get that is invalid. The reason he SHOULD look into all of this, is there ARE no valid explanations. There are no serious answers. They ALL have been debunked.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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