Richard you are dishonest, especially if you are a catholic. I have posted this statement from Aquinas' Summa (like a bible to the catholic faith) to you previously. God is intelligence itself:
http://dhspriory.org/thomas/Compendium.htm#31 "CHAPTER 31 IDENTITY BETWEEN GOD AND HIS INTELLIGENCE God must be His own intelligence. Since “to understand” is second act, for example, to consider, whereas the corresponding first act is the intellect or knowledge, any intellect that is not its own understanding is related to its understanding as potency to act. For in the order of potencies and acts, what is first is always potential with respect to what follows, and what is last is perfective. This is true only with reference to one and the same being, for among different beings the converse obtains; thus a mover and an agent are related to the thing moved and actuated as act to potency. In God, however, who is pure act, there is nothing that is related to anything else as potency to act. Accordingly God must be His own intelligence. Furthermore, the intellect is related to its act of understanding as essence is related to existence. But God understands through His essence, and His essence is His existence. Therefore His intellect is His act of understanding. And thus no composition is attributed to Him by the fact that He understands, since in Him intellect and understanding and intelligible species are not distinct; and these in turn are nothing else than His essence." This also applies to the supreme monad. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/6/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-06, 07:35:30 Subject: Re: Two "Leibnizian" proofs that God has the power of self-reference Dear Richard, Would it be a heresy to consider that God could have partial but not complete self-reference? On 9/6/2012 7:24 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: > The Roman Catholic Church believes that god has intention but not > intelligence in agreement with Arithemetical Truth and neo-Platonism > concept that self-reference is not possible for god. > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: >> Since Leibniz's metaphysics is perfectly logical, any logical >> proposition is true of his metaphysics. >> >> >> Two "Leibnizian" proofs that God has the power of self-reference >> >> 1. All monads with intellect can presumably have self-reference. >> 2. God is also a monad with intellect, being the supreme monad. >> 3. Therefore God has the power of self-reference >> >> 1. God is all-powerful (can do anything). >> 2. Self-reference is a power. >> 3. Therefore God has the power of self-reference. >> >> -- Onward! Stephen http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
