Originally posted by Apologiaphoenix
View Post
Something like an emotion it can only be meaningfully spoken about if it means the same thing for all it applies to. In this case I only see special pleading as to why it doesn't mean the same thing for God as it does for man. If it's not an emotion for God, then your previous own argument makes no sense at all. Also, it would mean that God having other emotions would have no effect on His joy anyway, so it's a terrible flawed argument all around.
I also argued against joy being seen as an emotion in human beings, and God as well.
I'll probably get called "anti-science" for this, but I don't care anymore. I don't think that thinking is "a process of the brain". It's more properly a process of the spirit/soul. The brain just puts thoughts into operation for the body. You're not following Thomastic/Aristotelian thought* very well if you think that the intellect is a "process of the brain".
"On the contrary, The Philosopher assigns the intellectual faculty as a power of the soul (De Anima ii, 3)."
Since thinking is not a "process of the brain" in my view, then your argument fails.
I do think God is doing all things from all time. How could it be otherwise, unless you want to say that God changes, something Scripture repeatedly says He does not do.
Your view would require that Jesus is still on the cross, that God is still in the act of initial creation. This is contrary to many passages.
Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Romans 6:9-11 New International Version (NIV)
9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 7:27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
Hebrews 9:12 He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption
I notice you didn't say anything about how impassibility, and the "Pure Act" concept negates the "Unmoved Mover" concept, or how it require a full on deterministic universe.
*Given you're always putting down ID, and acting as if evolution is just fine I doubt you're following his thoughts on creation much at all.
Edit:I broke the link to Summa Contra Gentiles, but I'm not on my pc right now due to a storm. I'll try to fix it later.
Edit2: Putting the link down here since the cite tags interfere with the link tags. http://dhspriory.org/thomas/ContraGentiles3b.htm#99
Comment