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14383867 No.14383867 [Reply] [Original]

Aquinas is right in demonstrating pure actuality, however, he is incorrect in identifying God as separate from us. Aquinas proves a hinduistic, panentheist God rather than a monotheistic one. How could God truly be purely actual if he doesn't realize the potential of being this universe and all that is? Simply put, we are all the divine.

>> No.14383876

>>14383867
>Aquinas is right in demonstrating pure actuality
no

>> No.14383884

>>14383876
prove it

>> No.14384095

>in him we live and move and have our being
>But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
>And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.

>> No.14384129

>>14383867
>he is incorrect

Just stop there.

>> No.14384221

This is an interesting idea but the mere notion of Thomas seems to attract atheist seethers who haven’t read him

>> No.14384359

>>14384129
not an argument

>> No.14384483

>>14383867
>How could God truly be purely actual if he doesn't realize the potential of being this universe and all that is?
Why not?

>> No.14384631

>>14384483
because das an unrealized potential my nigga

>> No.14384658

>>14383867
>Aquinas proves a hinduistic, panentheist God rather than a monotheistic one
What's the difference?

>> No.14384664

>>14384221
this

>> No.14384693

>>14384658
God as a being with an independent existence vs God as a being with a coterminous existence to everything else.

I.e. God in the Abrahamic tradition is a being that is distinct from everything else in the world, whereas in Hinduism (and in Spinoza's philosophy) god is one with the world, and everything that exists in the world is a part of God.