RE: Debate: God Exists
February 27, 2017 at 7:20 pm
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2017 at 7:27 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(February 27, 2017 at 5:43 pm)LostLocke Wrote:(February 27, 2017 at 4:25 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: The Necessary Being. That than which nothing greater can be conceived.Something greater can always be conceived.
List every property that your specific god/idea of god has, and I will mention one thing that is missing, and therefore makes "your" god not the Necessary Being.
Property 1: Fully in Act
(February 27, 2017 at 5:55 pm)Mathilda Wrote: We can define what a table is, or a human, or a planet....we can still define something by the real world properties that it has...You can't say answer anything like this about a god.
There is some truth to what you say. The patristic fathers were very clear that positive attributes describe finitude therefore all that can truly be said of God, who is without limit, is what He is not.