RE: A timeless being cannot create
July 17, 2019 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2019 at 11:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Pointless, miracles are the impossible by another name. The incredible retreating god is s rhetorical device, not the god believed in by the faithful.
Saint Tommy believed in miracle god as much as any other nutter in his time. At the end of his life, he even believed that he’d received a personal revelation that reduced his work, in his words, to straw.
He’s been retconned as something he wasn’t for no reason other than it’s being useful to the Catholic Church to have done so. He was a charlatan and a loon whose theology was abandoned and only recently revived in an attempt to intellectualize their dying institution as something it never was in the first place.
These arguments over the god of the philosophers is nothing other than trading on credibility that never existed. Aristotle was wrong, and directly as a consequence of that, Saint Tom was wrong, full stop. At least the former cared whether or not his ideas were accurate. The latter emphatically and demonstrably did not.
Saint Tommy believed in miracle god as much as any other nutter in his time. At the end of his life, he even believed that he’d received a personal revelation that reduced his work, in his words, to straw.
He’s been retconned as something he wasn’t for no reason other than it’s being useful to the Catholic Church to have done so. He was a charlatan and a loon whose theology was abandoned and only recently revived in an attempt to intellectualize their dying institution as something it never was in the first place.
These arguments over the god of the philosophers is nothing other than trading on credibility that never existed. Aristotle was wrong, and directly as a consequence of that, Saint Tom was wrong, full stop. At least the former cared whether or not his ideas were accurate. The latter emphatically and demonstrably did not.
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