RE: Godly Motivations
October 16, 2019 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2019 at 8:23 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 16, 2019 at 7:58 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(October 16, 2019 at 7:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Then how is it possible for such a Being to be creative?
Boru
Again, there are different ideas about this.
One is that God emanates the world through an abundance of goodness. bonum diffusivum sui
One of the most widespread conceptions of God, or the One, is that it is completely simple, with no parts. Given that, it is impossible for there to be two things: 1) God, and 2) what God wants. Or 1) God, and 2) what God knows.
This whole lecture series looks pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sic5OdUIkgk
The episode here introduces some of the Neoplatonic ideas of the One that found their way into Christianity.
Put it another way, there is nothing there substantive enough for such comprehension as would allow them to be put into your own coherent and defensible words, so you avoid the implication of that by talking up the number of mutually contradictory items on that list of piffles, as if the volume of bullshit would suffice for raising bullshit to the status of insights.