RE: Arguments Against Thomistic philosophy
January 22, 2018 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 22, 2018 at 6:07 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Causal sequence should no be confused, at least in my objection...with temporal sequences in some general sense. By "first cause" I only mean antecedent in the chain of causality, not in time. We generally assume the two together...but it's not necessary. More an artifact of how we experience antecedent causes and temporal sequence than a binding treatise on some "first cause". I think that here even you would agree. If there were a god -or- a first cause, theres no reason to assume that it would experience or be bound by time as we are. The hypothetical higher dimensional being or cause could..from some general future, both view and effect itself as a cause in our temporal past.
My objection was far more simple than that. To whit...nothing at all about a first cause has anything to do, necessarily, with the god you or anyone else believes in. You believe in jehovah and jesus..not a nebulous first cause..or even a "god of the philosophers" - though it does sound awfully nice. The "God of the Philosophers", at least anymore....is not an A-T theology god. That your god has been defined, somehow, to explain this...does not mean that your god is actually the explanation..or that it shares anything more than a trivial semantic similarity with a first cause. None of the things that are important to you, about a god..even in the general, are synonymous with "antecendent A" or.. "the first cause".
My objection was far more simple than that. To whit...nothing at all about a first cause has anything to do, necessarily, with the god you or anyone else believes in. You believe in jehovah and jesus..not a nebulous first cause..or even a "god of the philosophers" - though it does sound awfully nice. The "God of the Philosophers", at least anymore....is not an A-T theology god. That your god has been defined, somehow, to explain this...does not mean that your god is actually the explanation..or that it shares anything more than a trivial semantic similarity with a first cause. None of the things that are important to you, about a god..even in the general, are synonymous with "antecendent A" or.. "the first cause".
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