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The Knowledge, Will, Love and Power of God
For tomas aquinas god's no ledge is not passive and derivative, as ours often is. Rather, it's always creative. Consider the knowledge, will, love and power of god. Say four qualities are four properties. To know the good as good is precisely what it means to will. And since god knows himself completely as a supreme good, will and knowledge coincide in him. Finally, to love is to will either the absent good or to savour the good that one possesses. Since god is always, by his knowledge and will, in possession of his own good, he is, by the same token, mark by the sheerest love.