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How can God gives us free will and yet be the creator and originator of everything at the same time? [closed]
Religious people say we have free will in that god has the knowledge of whatever will happen but he doesn't cause our actions, we have a choice. I did an act of sin out of my own choice; god was only ...
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Question about the Thomistic view of God's attributes
According to Thomism, God's essence must be identical with his attributes, lest God has real attributes he is dependent upon for his being and "compose" his essence, compromising God's ...
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Is it a contradiction to believe God is both transcendent and omnipresent?
From a classical theistic perspective, God both transcends time and space, yet is also present everywhere. But how can God be both outside time and space and yet be present everywhere?
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Why does God have the property of Goodness?
Consider the following premise.
Every existing thing has an explanation of its existence (either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause).
God is sometimes viewed as existing by His ...
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Does Actus Purus (pure act) necessitate that God is his attributes / God has no real attributes
If Actus Purus is true, does this mean that God is his attributes (his essence is identical to his attributes) or that God has no real attributes (simply virtually predications of the one essence). If ...
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