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PostPosted: Fri 13:02, 30 Aug 2013    Post subject: hollister france Gods Infinite Goodness

Saint Thomas Aquinas in his book Summa Theologica writes that God's existence is independent of time. He exists in infinity, so God's being aware of all things is the result of his transcendence of time. We are contingent beings and that is why we see time as a linear function, because of this we [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] can know the events of the past and present but we can not know what will happen in the future, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] it is our nature. As for God he knows everything about the past, present and the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] future as well. This is the foundation of his omniscience. To say that God possesses omniscience is not [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] to say that he sees and defines future actions, but to say that to God in infinity, all things are present.
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