tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post8474383020858069780..comments2023-10-10T09:10:43.247-05:00Comments on Christ's Faithful Witness: Truth or Consequences? Lawrence and Susan Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11526624376697144718noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-6453009117876672382018-12-01T12:26:12.649-06:002018-12-01T12:26:12.649-06:00All the perfections are in the Mind of God. That&#...All the perfections are in the Mind of God. That's Catholic teaching and St. Augustine argues that based on Divine Revelation. Every created thing flows from an idea. He makes it according to what His Idea is. Nature can cooperate perfectly or imperfectly. Understanding is a spiritual activity, not a material activity. By abstracting the Forms, man is participating in the Mind of God. He sees it and understands it. God infuses in the mind of man an understanding as God sees it. We want to see things from the perspective that originates the very Form in HIs mind. By man participating we are imperfect. He made that thing. You recognise it. You are participating in the mind of God in a very finite way. That’s a very Augustinian way of looking at it. For Aristotle the Forms manifested themselves as matter as he didn’t contemplate the Mind of God. My ways are not your ways. My thoughts are not your thoughts. That’s true, but it denies that God infuses his thoughts in man. Man is created in such a way that he can abstract the form from what is. Nominalism says there are no ontological forms. Everything in God is arbitrary. Lawrence and Susan Foxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-34652324255702046652018-11-24T14:27:35.011-06:002018-11-24T14:27:35.011-06:00But Thomits don't believ the divine ideas are ...But Thomits don't believ the divine ideas are forms in the mind of God! They think they are relations of possibile imitations of the divine essence. You and pieper have confused them with the Scotists. Also, the Thomists like the nominalists deny common natures. So really you should be a Scotist.Lee Faberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00476833516234522602noreply@blogger.com