De Moor IV:31: Defining God's Eternity
The Eternity of God is defined: It is that Perfection of God, whereby He, being without all Beginning, End, and Succession, exists...
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Dr. Dilday
Feb 17, 20193 min read
De Moor IV:31: God's Eternity Harmonized with His Other Most Glorious Attributes
This Eternity of God is argued in general, 1. by God’s Independence, which, a. as it posits God as Necessarily Existing, so also as...
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Dr. Dilday
Feb 15, 20191 min read
De Moor IV:31: The Eternity of God
Finally, Eternity is to be claimed for God, an Eternity altogether distinct from all Æon and Time. Time, of course, is the measure of...
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Dr. Dilday
Feb 14, 20194 min read
De Moor IV:30: Controversy over Immensity between the Lutherans and the Reformed
Now, the calumny of the Lutherans, as if the Immensity of God were overturned by us, is confuted by the very arguments that Mentzer[1]...
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Dr. Dilday
Feb 9, 20195 min read
De Moor IV:30: The Immensity of God
By His Immensity God also coexists with all Possible Space, which, because it does not exist actually, is called Imaginary. Doubtlessly,...
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Dr. Dilday
Feb 7, 20192 min read
De Moor IV:29: God Alone Omnipresent
No Creature is Omnipresent like God. That is, the Omnipresence or Immensity attributed to God includes actual Infinity with respect to...
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Dr. Dilday
Feb 6, 20195 min read
De Moor IV:28: Omnipresence not Diffusion
But, α. that this Essential Omnipresence is not conceived of by us through the mode of Co-extension or Diffusion, is evident from the...
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Dr. Dilday
Feb 4, 20192 min read
De Moor IV:28: Divine Omnipresence in the Hand of the Philosophers
With respect to the Mode of divine Omnipresence, it is certainly exceedingly difficult to understand. In particular, it ought not to be...
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Dr. Dilday
Feb 2, 20198 min read
De Moor IV:27: God's Immensity and Omnipresence Defended against the Socinians
Finally, the Socinians deny this, who feign that God in Essence is contained in the Heavens; and in the passages cited by HOORNBECK,...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 29, 20193 min read
De Moor IV:27: God's Immensity and Omnipresence Confirmed by Reason
β. Reason confirms the same: 1. from the Independence of God. For whatever is limited by something in some way, even with respect to its...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 28, 20192 min read
De Moor IV:27: God's Immensity and Omnipresence Proven from Scripture
It is evident from this Definition that our AUTHOR does not speak of the Presence of divine Knowledge and Operations only, but of His...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 26, 20197 min read
De Moor IV:26: The Impassibility of God
Hence also the Affections and Passions of the Soul are not to be attributed to God; as it is done by the Socinians, among whom Crellius,...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 19, 20192 min read
De Moor IV:26: Immutability Applied to God's Existence and Essence
But this Immutability of God pertains, α. to God’s Existence, Eternally, in accordance with § 31, 32. β. To His Essence, forever the...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 17, 20193 min read
De Moor IV:26: The Immutability of God
From Simplicity flows Immutability, which, as it was organized by our AUTHOR, is proven, 1. From Sacred Scripture, among other passages,...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 15, 20192 min read
De Moor IV:25: Not Composition of God with the Creature
β. On the other hand, God’s Simplicity excludes all Composition that God might enter into with the Creature. For, if, 1. God’s Simplicity...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 14, 201912 min read
De Moor IV:25: Against Pantheism
The Simplicty of God excludes: α. On the one hand, all Partial Communication of the Divine Essence, whether with all Creatures, or with...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 6, 20195 min read
De Moor IV:24: Divine Simplicity Defended against the Remonstrants
But, as the Socinians and Vorstius here pursue their finite and corporeal conception of God, and study to overthrow in this way the...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 4, 20194 min read
De Moor IV:24: Divine Simplicity Defended against the Socinians and Vorstius
That God is thus Simple and without any Composition, we hold, 1. against the Socinians, who depict to us a Composite God, when they...
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Dr. Dilday
Jan 2, 20194 min read
De Moor IV:24: Against Composition in God
Moreover, in this Single Essence there is no Real Composition, either of the Nature and Attributes, or of the Attributes among...
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Dr. Dilday
Dec 31, 20181 min read
De Moor IV:23: Against Socinian Unitarianism
We are obliged, at last, to charge the Socinians, who set themselves above all other Christians as Unitarians, because they multiply...
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