(July 16, 2019 at 7:40 am)Bucky Ball Wrote: Where did non-existence come from.I am pretty confident that some things currently exist.
Quote:A being cannot "decide to create" and THEN "create" without at least mental movement, thus the entire argument is nonsense.
Can you point me to the place in Thomas's works where he says that a being "decides to create" and then creates? All of the books about Thomas I've read are clear that, in his view, there is no decision involved -- no change or temporal element in creation. You are correct that this would require mental movement, and this is why both the Thomists and the Neoplatonists rule it out.