RE: I am an orthodox Christian, ask me a question!
August 14, 2009 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2009 at 2:39 pm by Eilonnwy.)
(August 14, 2009 at 11:41 am)Jon Paul Wrote: I have already explained why in other posts. Go back and read; intellection is apprehension; abstract actualisation, also called things like "visualisation", "imagination", or simply understanding, which means the same as Greek episteme, to stand near or under something abstractly - in other words, actualising a thing as far as possible in your mind. God, being pure actuality, the purely actual principle of all potencies (as I have shown in many posts), is therefore pure intellect; purely actualising, in his very being, but in a much more perfect sense than humanity, because he is not "reifying", "re-actualising", as human intellects attempt to do to understand what already exists, but to the contrary, since he is the transcendent actuality - the creator (actualising principle) of all things- nothing "pre-exists"/transcends him, and so he is exactly informing things through his actualisation, rather than being informed by any other actuality (since there is none other than himself and those things which he himself informs existence to by actualising them). And so, his intellect is strictly active, informative, rather than being composed of both potential and active intellect as in the case of human intellects.
So God is as pure as you can imagine him, because you said actualization is comparable to imagination. That's awesome that you can admit you imagine God. I have to agree, God is probably the purest intellect in your imagination.
You have done nothing to demonstrate anything you say is true.
(August 14, 2009 at 11:49 am)LukeMC Wrote:(August 14, 2009 at 11:22 am)leo-rcc Wrote: Wow, argumentum ad firefoxum?
It's recognised in philosophical circles. I cannot deny this of her.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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