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S1E28 - The Existence of God | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 3: God and Creation

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Is This Not the Personal God of the Bible?

The Oxford English Dictionary says this, God, noun. Whether it's a noun or not is an interesting question we could ask. That's kind of some metaphysical presuppositions there, but that's okay. Being is a verb for Aquinas. It says the one supreme being, capital B, the creator and ruler of the universe. What our necessary being really matches that, it's being capital B, it's sheer being, and it's creator. And so we're justified in saying it's God in the dictionary sense of the term.

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