WOF 275: Understanding Violence in the Old Testament
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
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God Is Not a Being, but a Source of Subsistence
In the book of genesis, god is presented as a humanoid figure. He's got a body and he'sGot hands and he's got a voice. Now go forward to judo isaiah. What do you find but these magnificent descriptions of the creator? Is anyone like me? No, there's no god like me. I'm not like any creature. And now we're getting in the ball park of thomas aquinas tha. God is not a being, but ipsum esse, subsistence. So what's happening there? But an unfolding of revelation in a way that was appropriate to the various stages of israel's development.
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