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I came across something interesting the other day.
I’m presenting it here as I’m very much interested in your thoughts on this topic.
“Would creation remain created if God doesn’t maintain it?”
What is your opinion?
Hmmm …
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Too deep for me.
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Hmmm.
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Genesis explains that God created and it was good. Of course, God is perfect goodness by attribute of His Divine Essence, so the question I think would be is that if things are created good does it follow they are good participation in the goodness of God? If God withdraws which is a deprivation and would be the absence of the good, could he do this entirely or would be a contradiction of His Divine Essence since it follows that a deprivation of the good is evil?
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Also consider that the classical definition of hell is the withdraw of God’s presence from a person, and yet, traditionally Christians do not usually hold to a form of annihilationism.
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God is creation, he was before it, he created it, so it exists because he exists. Well, that’s this girl’s take on it 🙂 x
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God is the source of all actuality in creatures; however, he isn’t in need of them or He wouldn’t be God. There’s a distinction between saying God is existence and God is creation. God is in all things, but he cannot be limited by creatures or identified with them, or again He wouldn’t be God. It just would violate first principles in logic.
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Alright, so I started off with asking somewhat rhetorical questions and framing it within most Christians’ understanding of what Hell is; however, Jessica’s comment tying God as creation, I think it’s important to give a more philosophical understanding on the matter. There has to be a distinction between God preserving creature in being and their creatures essence. The Divine Essence is immuatable, unchanging, goodness, infinite, etc. And creatures are not those things.
God is in all things as the efficient cause (the source of their existence) is present on the that which He creates. When the carver takes the chisel to the wood and forms the eagle, the thing is moved and the mover must be joined together. And so, the mover is present in the work. The carver as agent—being the efficient cause of the wooden eagle—is limited to those works while they are being carved; but once the eagle is completed, he no longer sustains the wooden eagle. God continues to be joined to things as he preserves them in their being as agent, so as long as a thing has being, God must be present in it.
So, what about Hell, Demons, and the damned? Again, I asked the consideration that most traditionally do not believe in annihilationism, so again, there’s distinction here, Demons and the damned get their nature from God as they are beings, but not the deformity of sin.
So, it would almost need to be put this way, as I implied with the rhetorical questions, for a being to cease to be, they would have to pass out of the Divine mind of God, which would entail a change or potentiality in God, which God must be pure actuality to be God.
In some way, it’s comforting then, because your being by God has been from eternity, the measurement of the perfect whole.
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