(November 6, 2016 at 3:11 am)theologian Wrote:(November 6, 2016 at 1:36 am)Primordial Bisque Wrote: Your god doesn't have a "manner of being" then? It sounds like you are classifying it as a non-existent entity.
What makes something exist is not the manner of being, but the act of being, for manner of being is that which limit the act of being; and the act of being is which that makes something exist. But, God Whom is Pure Act of Being shows that He is existing more than others and that nothing limits His existence, for He doesn't have any manner of being. So, it is not correct that God doesn't exist just because He doesn't have manner of being.
So, that would basically make god a perfect, changeless entity, with no beginning or end. Is it affected by temporal succession at all; or does it merely exist as a boundless, fixed instance?
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