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Ep. 49 - Is God Simple? | Divine Simplicity, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Theology w/Steven Nemes

Parker's Pensées

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Is There a Change in God?

How is it that in this possible world, god creates the world, and in this one he doesn't? Well, because god's relation to the world is indeterministic. And so also, when we say that god is creator, we mean that we depend on him for our existence. God is not affected or changed or, you know, transformed by the fact that he creates. I come into being thanks to god, but god is not changed in any way by the fact That he creates me. So there is no actual change in god involved from creating eno not creating to creating. But what happens is the creation comes into being. There's something that we can predicate of god

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