“Tu es verum esse; tu es totum esse” — Duns Scotus There is an old tradition which associates God with being or existence. Duns Scotus says...
A while back, Edward Feser was asked when he would respond to the published criticisms of Joe Schmid. Feser replied that Joe is a sock account, with the implication that he did not need to respond to Joe. Well, you know what. I completely agree with Feser. Or do I?
Given the assumption that God is timeless and free to create (and assuming, of course, that there is a God who has in fact freely created), we can, I think, derive a contradiction.
Over the years, I have published a wide network of arguments against the model of God known as classical theism. Some people find the arguments persuasive...
Inman (2021) identifies two features characteristic of discourse on divine presence: immensity and omnipresence. Briefly, divine immensity says no boundary can limit or contain God. Divine omnipresence may be construed in one of two ways.
The only way for proponents of divine simplicity to avoid modal collapse implies rejecting the idea that God really loves people.
I am starting to appreciate the confessional nature of arguments. Arguments are avenues for thinkers simply to confess to their dialectical partners what strikes them as convincing, true, or clear.
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