(August 14, 2009 at 3:41 pm)Jon Paul Wrote: You cannot necessarily confound a relational attribute (justice) to a contingent thing (e.g. human souls) with intrinsic attributes (goodness), even though they equal to same fact of the divine being, in different ways (relational-to-intrinsic or intrinsic).
Sorry, what?
Jon Paul Wrote:As to why he is pure good and pure perfection, that is because he is pure actuality, and actuality is itself the metric and first principle by which we measure goodness and perfection.
Could you expand on that please? "actuality itself is the metric" ?
Jon Paul Wrote:I was only speaking about what the word signifies when used in a Christian context. The word can be used in all of those ways, and several other senses too. What goes again is the several sense it's used is a transcendence of isolated amounts of time.
Oh, sorry. Yeah, feel free to use your own definitions of words which already have definitions. I'll just... try and keep up
