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When we speak of God's simplicity we speak of the fact that God is not composed of parts, or compounded of elements.
In God there is no passive potentiality at all; God is pure actuality.
In God there is no composition of matter and form.
God is his own existence
God is composed of substance and accidentals.
An apple is a substance.
God is not a part or element of anything else.
God's absolute simplicity in being and essence conflicts with the subsistence of the simple divine essence in the three distinct Persons of the Blessed Trinity.
When something is not composed of parts, we call that thing:
simple
compound
broken
round
A body is subject to:
motion and change
growth and death
size and shape
range and speed
If God is the unmoved First-Mover, then he is not subject to:
gravity and friction
actuality and independence
God is pure .
A body is always in the state of potentiality, that is:
It is capable of being acted on by causes.
It is never doing anything.
It can be anything it wants to be.
It is compounded of elements.
A body is:
composed of matter
a pure actuality
subject to motion and change
always in the state of potentiality
In God there is:
no material composition
no composition of potentiality and actuality
many parts and compounded elements
passive potentiality
The element common to all bodies and the element by which a body is bodily is:
primal matter
substance
form
composition
All bodies are composed of:
substantial form
compounded elements
billions of cells
The substantial determinant in each body which makes it an existing body of its essential kind is called:
first cause
material composition
A body its nature or working essence. God does not anything.
A body is always composed of an essence or nature concreted in:
an individual subject
a potentiality
its own essence
its own existence
God is his own nature.
Why does God not -have- anything?
If he did he would be in potentiality towards having it and would receive it from some prior being
if he did then nothing else could have anything
if he did then he would be composed of primal matter
if he did he would be a pure actuality with no compounding of a nature with the individual subject which has that nature
There is no being prior to the .
Creatures, bodily or spiritual, are composed of and .
receives existence.
is received by essence to make an existing creature.
Since God is the First Being, there is nothing to him from which his essence could receive existence.
God does not receive anything of his being.
It is God's essence to exist.
In God, and are absolutely one and the same.
God is a compound of essence and existence.
The general essential class of things to which a creature belongs is its:
genus
phylum
specific difference
existence
We understand an organism as belonging to the general class of , and as marked off from body-as-such by the fact that it has .
We understand and define a creature by:
knowing its genus
adding to its genus its specific difference
recognizing its material form
knowing its essence
In God there is no composition or compounding of genus and difference.
The special difference by which a creature is essentially distinguished from other members of its class is:
its specific difference
its genus
its composition
it's material form
A is a reality that is naturally suited to exist as itself, and not as the mark or determinant of some other thing.
An is a reality that is suited to exist as of something other than itself.
The fact that an apple is red is part of that apple's substance.
The color of an apple is to the substance of the apple.
A creatural substance is said to be composed of and inhering .
A creatural substance has . In God there are no at all.
All that God has, God is.
God is not composed of parts of elements of any kind. God is absolutely .
What is an element or part of a compound cannot act and ; only the completed compound can act so.
One can think of God as a "world soul" or as primal matter.