RE: I am an orthodox Christian, ask me a question!
August 14, 2009 at 3:23 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2009 at 3:31 pm by LukeMC.)
(August 14, 2009 at 3:11 pm)Jon Paul Wrote: 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.
In other words will = action = goodness = will = justice = action = etc ? and all words lose meaning as his attributes are not separate at all but defined under one phrase which breaks down any coherence of this god character?
(August 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm)Jon Paul Wrote: 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.
I wasn't disputed. Just laughing at the way you stated it as your definition as opposed to "the definition".
(August 14, 2009 at 1:59 pm)Jon Paul Wrote: You failed to see it, but that's not my problem. I have provided everything you need to know to substantiate it.
No you didn't. You pushed words together and said they equate to the same thing which they surely don't.
Jon Paul Wrote: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.
Nuh-uh. The closest I remember you coming was when you said that god is benevolent because all good things sprung from him. This doesn't satisfy me at all. A lot of awful has sprung from him. I'd call him indifferent. I may have missed your posts on this if you backed up the idea a little more through pages 4-30 ish.
Jon Paul Wrote:Eternal does not mean an infinite amount of time, but a subsistent, nontemporal reality wholly apart from time.
eternal
• adjective 1 lasting or existing forever. 2 valid for all time: eternal truths
Oxford dictionary. The english language is not yours for the taking.
