RE: I am a Catholic, ask me a question!
July 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2009 at 3:20 pm by Jon Paul.)
(July 18, 2009 at 2:40 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: How do you know that god is not contingent upon anything else? Is it god's word you go by? That would be circularv reasoning.Because of my conception of God, which I have already explained in detail, which specifically logically necessitates him as noncontingent upon anything outside of himself, because that would be a contradiction of the logical precepts and metaphysics involved in the claim. Contrary to the causality of the universe, which in its very nature of impure actuality is constantly re-contingent upon an outside actuality for the actualisation of new potentialities that enter into the causal procession.
(July 18, 2009 at 2:40 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: This is a contradiction. If only god provides the absolute moral preceptives they are de facto dependent upon god.Only Gods noncontingent actuality can embody absolute morality, so they are not dependent upon any contingency, but sheerly a part of noncontingency.
(July 18, 2009 at 2:40 pm)Purple Rabbit Wrote: if not only god provides these absolute moral preceptives they are independent upon god and we in fact do not need god to find absolute moral.Only Gods noncontingent actuality can embody absolute morality, so no, they are not independent upon the noncontingency, since they themselves are a part of noncontingency. They are not merely dependent on noncontingency either, since they are a part of it.
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