"It doesn't matter how many of you think you're doing the good stuff, you're not. Check out my definitions of everything again and you'll surely agree."
That's St. Anselm of Canterbury, to be pedantic: but Aquinas did not care for Anselm's line of thought.“Can God define terms so narrowly that She can beat Herself in an argument?”
-Thomas Aquinas, interrogatively.
That's St. Anselm of Canterbury, to be pedantic: but Aquinas did not care for Anselm's line of thought.
Creating a logical contradiction is contrary to the form of Truth, and thus evil. Evil is not real, but a deprivation of the Good, as darkness is a lack of light or cold is a lack of warmth. To commit evil isn't power which has to do with the actuation of Being (potence), but contrary to power (hence impotence).“Can God create a pizza topping so weird a New Zealander wouldn’t eat it?”
St. Anselm of Canterbury, confusingly.
And yet, New Zealanders were made.Creating a logical contradiction is contrary to the form of Truth, and thus evil. Evil is not real, but a deprivation of the Good, as darkness is a lack of light or cold is a lack of warmth. To commit evil isn't power which has to do with the actuation of Being (potence), but contrary to power (hence impotence).
Ergo, creating a pizza with toppings so weird that a New Zealander wouldn’t eat it is contrary to the nature of God, as such an absurdity is incompatible with omnipotence.
There may have been an absurd unstated premise in my logical chain there.And yet, New Zealanders we're made.
Summoning @CleverNickName . . .“Can God create a pizza topping so weird a New Zealander wouldn’t eat it?”
St. Anselm of Canterbury, confusingly.