(October 16, 2019 at 7:51 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(October 16, 2019 at 7:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What I'm asking is how it is possible for a complete, immutable Being to have motivations at all.
I'm going to dismiss Ken Ham out of hand.
I read Tillich's 'Dynamics of Faith' years ago (and I confess I found it rather heavy going). It seems to me that claiming 'God is the motivation' as an explanation of how an immutable being can do anything is so much semantic tail-biting. Motivation - of necessity - requires a desire, a lack, or both. I doubt very much that even Tillich, with his 'transtheism' would have been willing to admit that God consists of desires and deficiencies, something which would seem to be requisite for God to be (as opposed to 'have') the motivation.
Boru
Obviously there's a lot of variation among Christians.
The God of [most] theologians and philosophers doesn't have any motivations. It is impassible, has no desires, wants nothing, etc.
This is irreconcilable with the sola scriptura literalist view.
Then how is it possible for such a Being to be creative?
Boru
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