What is the difference and relation between God and Reality?
Is Reality a cration of God, is God himself, is it only a part of him or just an expression of his being?
That depends on how you define the term reality. If you define it at as all that is material and noetic, then God is above reality. If you define reality as all that is material, noetic and divine, then it includes God.
>>1179405
Define divine and how can God be limited by something.
>>1179397
There is some sort of thing which basically is the word for "everything"
You can use whatever word you want to describe it: universe, reality, you can even make up your own word.
The point is that God would necessarily be in this, anything you could think of would be.
From than on you can divide the "everything" into categories. You can have one category be material, one be immaterial, one be supernatural, whatever man. God would be in some of these categories but not others.
This is going to hold true no matter what you names you give to these things.
This of course has the logical conclusion that God could not have created everything (since he himself is contained in "everything").
>>1179532
God is not a thing, he's above everything.
I got you.
Yeh, this is really a matter of sect, and even at times personal, conviction. Many modern monotheists see God as "infinity", some do not. Many have a view of "trinity" ( one God in three persons ), some do not.
You need to be more specific, like, "How do Mormons view God", or "How do Catholics view God", or "How do Oriental Orthodox view God", etc.
>>1179397
Nature and the rest of Creation ( circles of Heaven ) - are external to God.
Beings created by God such as us - do not blend into his Being, do not mix - He only sends energies to transform us.
God Himself is everything, but us and the rest of creation is a bonus so to speak - made out of love, He alone is real - we just exist.
>>1179397
According to Thomistic philosophy only God truly is, and everything that is, is because it partakes of his isness.
But this is not to be confused with the Advaita school of Hindu philosophy, according to which everything that is not God is an illusion. No, things really exist, but their existence is dependent on God, whereas God exists independently of everything else.
Another way to put it is that existence is part of God's essence, but not of created beings such as angels and humans, which at one time didn't exist.
God doesn't exist.
>>1180178
>>1179397
Just wondering if Christians realize that is a fresco of the Greco-Roman Pantheon with the twelve Olympians depicted in it...
No problem since we're discussing God in general, but just to make sure.
>>1180205
don't think anyone cared
>>1180205
There's no problem if you're catholic.
It's only art.
