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To: Mad Dawg

“”(I’m getting a headache here ...) we realize that it is bound up with “wording”.””

I hear you.

Our finite minds can only understand thinking as either something we don’t know or something to gain knowledge,make decisions etc...on and on.

What would God think about since He knows everything including Himself?

From Aquinas..
From what has been said it is clear why our mind does not know the infinite as the divine mind does. Our mind differs from the divine mind in four respects; and they make all the difference. The first is that our mind is simply finite, the divine mind infinite. The second is that as our mind knows different things by different impressions, it cannot extend to an infinity of things, as the divine mind can. The third results in this way, that as our mind is cognisant of different things by different impressions, it cannot be actually cognisant of a multitude of things at the same time;* and thus it could not know an infinity of things except by counting them in succession, which is not the case with the divine mind, which discerns many things at once as seen by one presentation. The fourth thing is that the divine mind is cognisant of things that are and of things that are not


10,685 posted on 10/12/2010 2:14:09 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: stfassisi

> “From Aquinas..”

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You actually will rely on such a desperately confused source? The man was seriously mentally ill.
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10,690 posted on 10/12/2010 2:19:29 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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