RE: The Principle of Contingent Causation: The Impossibility of Infinite Regress.
August 13, 2023 at 8:39 am
(August 13, 2023 at 8:03 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: All of this back and forth, but neither of you have been talking about the universe being contingent, you've been arguing over whether it's contents were contingent. A necessary universe might be filled with contingent contents. Things that could be different, which doesn't actually indicate contingency, but I'm rolling with it.
As Aquinas would have it, God, being immaterial, is not individuated by anything distinct from his nature, and so there is no real distinction between God and his nature.
As the Bible would have it, God not only has parts, he has back parts.
Exodus 33:23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
Normally this would be irrelevant but Aquinas is so fond of proof-texting.
