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To: Aquinasfan
"An angel isn't any more of a "supernatural entity" than you or me. An angel is a simple substance, a substantial form, without matter. An angel is pure intellect. Humans are compound substances, form and matter, but like angels, also have a substantial form, called the "soul" or "intellect."

Whatever you believe in is just fine with me. I don't care. But don't state as fact something that is merely something you believe. It is what you believe, and nothing more.
30 posted on 07/15/2003 11:57:39 AM PDT by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan
But don't state as fact something that is merely something you believe.

The existence of intellectual beings (angels) is a logical necessity:

...I answer that, There must be some incorporeal creatures. For what is principally intended by God in creatures is good, and this consists in assimilation to God Himself. And the perfect assimilation of an effect to a cause is accomplished when the effect imitates the cause according to that whereby the cause produces the effect; as heat makes heat. Now, God produces the creature by His intellect and will (14, 8; 19, 4 ). Hence the perfection of the universe requires that there should be intellectual creatures. Now intelligence cannot be the action of a body, nor of any corporeal faculty; for every body is limited to "here" and "now." Hence the perfection of the universe requires the existence of an incorporeal creature...

Whether an angel is altogether incorporeal?
St. Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica

61 posted on 07/15/2003 12:23:28 PM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: MineralMan
Whatever you believe in is just fine with me. I don't care. But don't state as fact something that is merely something you believe. It is what you believe, and nothing more

well, the same can be said for you, in your disbelief, and calling the child's family STUPID. i haven't heard you express regret for that unfortunate OPINION.

190 posted on 07/15/2003 4:18:48 PM PDT by xsmommy
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