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Omnipotence And St. Thomas Aquinas
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....seems to be generally accepted as an intrinsic
characteristic of the Judaeo-Christian god, as it says in Luke I. 37, "...there
is nothing that God cannot do.". Certain objections can be raised to attributing
this characteristic to god however, in-so-far as this characteristic seems to
conflict with other accepted attr.... Part 2 of Paper
....ines as all things which can be
logically expressed without the predicate being in conflict with the subject -
i.e. god is capable of all things which do not involve a contradiction in terms.
This does not imply any defect in the power of god, Aquinas goes on to say,
because impossible things by definition have "no aspect of possibility",
moreover, it is absurd to expect divine omnipotence to encompass the logically
impossible.
(I) Aquinas answers the first objection as follows. He explains t.... |
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