RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
July 29, 2019 at 6:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2019 at 6:34 pm by GrandizerII.)
(July 29, 2019 at 6:57 am)Belaqua Wrote: God is not intelligent in the way that people are intelligent. Because in people, intelligence involves learning, connecting, solving unknowns, etc.
God doesn't know in the way that people do. When we say "I know X," there are two things -- me and X. The knower and the known are two.
Then in what way does such a God have a "mind" (or whatever divine equivalent to it is)?
In other words, in terms of knowledge, how is it different from a "virtual library" that contains all known information?
Furthermore, this God you describe seems so static and impersonal that there's no way this is the kind of God a Catholic monk actually believed in. In Thomism, how does the Trinity and Incarnation and all the standard Christian doctrines that presuppose divine personhood come into the picture?
