(August 14, 2009 at 2:38 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: 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.No, that's not what I said. But it's true that we cannot know that God exists without being intellectual agents; and that's also why we, as intellectual agents, have a higher teleological likeness to God and the possibility for an actual relationship to God.
(August 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm)LukeMC Wrote: I think I missed your point here. Does God have will again now?He had all along. What you don't understand is just divine simplicity: that all of Gods attributes equals to the same fact of his being, of pure actuality.
(August 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm)LukeMC Wrote: Your personal defintion? Lol.My personal one? No, it's not simply my personal one, but the one used in a large body of thinkers aside from me. You can dispute it, if you want, but that's a fight over words which I'm not going to engage in.
(August 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm)LukeMC Wrote: You mean the definition in the previous paragraph? I failed to see you prove anything in that paragraph. You stated that God has the freest form of will...?You failed to see it, but that's not my problem. I have provided everything you need to know to substantiate it.
(August 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm)LukeMC Wrote: Substantiate.I have already substantiated why God is pure actuality, and why pure actuality is the pure good and pure perfection, in all of the posts I've made about pure actuality.
(August 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm)LukeMC Wrote: The rest of this paragraph is null to me, as I cannot begin to understand how an eternal life can be viewed as a good thing.Eternal does not mean an infinite amount of time, but a subsistent, nontemporal reality wholly apart from time.
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton