/lit/ - Literature

>>14961595
In that sense not even God is free as he is forced to work things in one way instead of any, sin wouldn't exist as it would be in a humans nature to commit sin, if God's wanted to achieve something by creating he would be imperfect as he had something to gain which he lacked, as he lacks nothing being entirely perfect( whole) and knowing himself ( being) and loving himself ( wanting to be) he had no compulsion to do anything than be, he must be as we exist ( long story), if every action has an end and the end is a goal, and God created the world he already has what he intends to gain, if creation (being) is seperate from God ( Being) as creation is in motion (change) which implies that creation has potential for something, and if a intelligent( self knowing) living( self moving) agent ( you) has the potential to choose how it acts, it's acts being driven by seeking it's perfection ( it's form of being) as it recognises it lacking ( has potential to change) it in itself, it's nature is good as evil is lack of good ( hole in a sock) but it's choice might be evil as it's detrimental to it's nature, it might see a perversion to be good for it when it isn't as it doesn't know itself perfectly ( love itself). God was not compelled to bring non being into being, he foresaw it happening knowing all the potential of being before he let it be, but he was under no compulsion to let being be ( create), his thumb is not on top of us, eternal life in Christ is not in out nature but in God it is, in Christianity you choose to be Christian, you can choose not to as God is not a tyrant, choosing what isn't good is sin but you are not predetermined to do it, only to be. Hopefully I havnt misunderstood Aquinas

>>13190693
>>13190665
he was brainy even for a monk (as we know all monks have at least 150 IQ)