Walter

An absolutely simple God has no properties of any kind. He can't be 'father' ,son' and 'holy spirit'.

No, but iI think it shows why both theidtic personalism and Thomism are dead ends.

Craig's view is incoherent except perhaps if God enters time by accident. But if God willngly enters time, He is the necessary and sufficient conditio...

Where have I misinterpreted Descartes' writings? I haven't even mentioned Descartes.

I agree with you. But it still makes me wonder what exactly it is about a human being that makes it individual Will rather than individual Thomas. Whi...

But if everything that needed to transfer did transfer, what would be wrong with killing the original? I don't know how being dead feels (it may very ...

Yes, of course we have to pretend that. But the deeper problem is, if person is duplicaten, which 'part' of this person cannot be transferred to the d...

Because I am still alive. Or if you prefer, if thé Roker on the surface gets killed, the Roker on the Enterprise is still there. Nobody seemed to care...

Because no-one really gets killed?

That may be true, but in that case I sympathize with doc McCoy. I wouldn't be caught dead in a transporter.

Well, thank you for the replies. Let me first tell you that I am an atheist and I am not in fact arguing for the existence of a soul. However, I do wo...

No, I don't think it's God's job to make sure the world is consistent with logic. If He truly decides what is logical and what is not, every world is ...

Okay then. But most theists don't agree with you.

But could He have designed a world where 1 + 1 = 3?

But that is epistemology. God would know what is good, but He doesn't decide what is good, just like He doesn't decide that 1 + 1 = 2, or that square ...

If an act is good because it is what God chooses, "goodness" is meaningless. So, I think one act can be intrinsically better than another. But perhaps...

If there is something in the container, it is not simple.

Unless if course, doing B is just as good as doing A. Then God should be able to do B. But that would be a contingent choice.

Since "The will to do A" is a contingent property of me as a human being, it is not necessitated by my capacity, but it is still a property of me. Hen...

I think the intention to do A is clearly a property of the creator. Now if that intention is necessary, we are stuch with a modal collapse. I don't se...

In philosophy contingent means neither necessary nor impossible. Free Will, if it exists, is not determined yet it is contingent. Did God 'freely' cho...

Contingent means neiher necessary nor impossible..If the intention is not determined, it can be different So, if God van have different intentions, th...

But I am not abolutely smple. So, my 'intention' is a contingent part of me. But God's intention can't he contingent since God is identical with His i...

But in what way might God have decided otherwise?

From God's prespective, prior to creation, A was necessary because His "wanting" A is necesary and cannot be otherwise.

OK, if we live in 'the best thing' that God could have created, then God could not have wanted anything else, which means this creation is necessary.

If 'at the time when God was about to create' it was possible for Him to create whichever world He wanted, then you deel to be the one 'applying the t...

As far as I know, Tomaszewski is an advocate of Divine Simplicity.

So. the Will of God is a property of God and this Will of God is the same, whether A of B is created? And God's action to create A is the very same as...

I have been talking about God's Will to create A and God's Will to create B. Are they different or is God's Will to create A the same as God's Will to...

I don't think God exists.

If God exists and He is the creator of this world, then He obviously did something, namely creating this world

God is simple and immutable, but He can be red of blue? The redness or blueness of God is a contingent property. But if God is necessary and simple He...

The claim.is that God is identical to God's Will. But if God Wills A, then God is identical to His Will to create A, while if He Wills B, He is identi...

Yes, but is what God's wants to actualize necessary or not? Could God have wanted to actualzie B instad of A?

The question is: was it possible for God to create B instead of A? The Thomist's answer is yes.

Well, we are not talking about God creating A at t1 and B at t2, we are talking about God creating B instead of A, which, according to most Thomists, ...

Well, I am not saying that God can will conficting things. But God's will to create A cannot be identical to God's will to create B, unless God is not...

That belief doesn't carry force for me. I am simply assuming it for the sake of the argument.

Possible worlds are simply a way of saying if God what could be/have been the case. According to most Christians, including Thomists, it could have be...

According to Thomists, it is Existence itself and it has no spatial dimensions at all. Its Essence is Existence and that's all there is to it, except ...

That may be true, but I am willing to grant, for the sake of the argument, that it makes sense.

It is not a matter of wanting to understand God's actions, it is a matter of analyzing claims about his actions in light of logic.

Count Timothy van Icarus "Thomism suggests that God, in His simplicity, is not composed of separate parts or aspects that might conflict." But that's ...

Yes, simple and immutable exclude all properties, but Thomists tend to translate that as "God is identical to all His properties" they say that God's ...

I know about the via negativa, but I don't tjink it applies to necessary things."God is identical to all His 'properties' " is very clear. Those 'prop...

I don't know whether I am presenting Spinoza's critique, but what is wrong with my critique? Additional knowledge seems to be impossible, because then...

Gregory I know that lots of Thomists claim that Divine Simplicity does not preclude God's free choices., but my question is how this is possible given...

I would think God's love for himself is necessary, but then I think everything God does is necessary.

As far as I know, God was not hidden from Adam and Eve and God was not hidden from Satan or any of the fallen angels.