cekyophr5
Joined: 10 Aug 2013
Posts: 10694
Read: 0 topics
Location: England
|
Posted: 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.
Furthermore, in God's goodness, he wants himself to [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] respond to contingency and consequently be contingent to human beings. This [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] is exposed in God's judgment of man. If God judges our actions as contingent beings, then he [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] becomes dependent of our will. This would certainly raise a question if it were possible for God to become potential, because God as a necessary being should not be dependent of our will. Aquinas studies this issue by approaching the Goodness of God. In God's illimitable goodness, he decides to limit himself and [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] create a world of free beings. God gave us [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] the most significant thing, he allowed us to have freedom in choosing. The fact that God is contingent to us is the consequence of preceding act of God providing us free will. God does not [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] get or lose [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] anything in distributing his love, but we contingent beings [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] get a divine order and justice in the world, where goodness is praised and dissoluteness is condemned.
相关的主题文章:
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
|
|