Is the Catholic God Holy enough?

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How did you get that conclusion?

I am wondering how a person’s acts of will before the Beatific Vision can be greater than those done in life through virtue which were difficult. This is likewise aimed at understanding how God is good even though He doesn’t and never strove for goodness

regardless of what Plato said
 
No, I don’t claim to understand anything you write. Without communication I don’t see much cause to go on with this.
 
The issue is about Goodness as if it were a substance instead of an act (or at least the acting part of the substance making the substance good, not the reverse). Kant vs Plato? Close enough.

How **good **is a choice if their is really only one option
 
thinkandmull said:
The issue is about Goodness as if it were a substance instead of an act (or at least the acting part of the substance making the substance good, not the reverse). Kant vs Plato? Close enough.

How **good **is a choice if their is really only one option
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In regards to God you keep saying He has or He does or He understands. When you say these things you are anthropomorphising God, you are thinking that He is a creature and not the Creator.

God is. (yes that is a period)

There is only one Being that is God. We are beings just insomuch as we participate in His Being. The words that we use like Holy and our understanding of these words are merely shadows of what He is…The Epitome of Holiness.
 
But we l have to avoid error. So is it right to say that God’s choosing is what makes Him Holy, or an essence that reality gave Him from all eternity?
 
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But we l have to avoid error. So is it right to say that God’s choosing is what makes Him Holy, or an essence that reality gave Him from all eternity?
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Neither.
God’s Holiness is. He did not receive it from anything or anyone. He is immutable.
 
Its not heretical to say to say God’s goodness results from an eternal decision to do good, and if He had chosen not that path there would have been nothing. I mean, you can call Him good without this idea, as if He had the goodness of a baby. Some people may have trouble calling Him **Lord **though in that way. I mean we are over here trying to be good and He is walking in eternal bliss which He didn’t earn. I can see how some people would laugh at this
 
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Its not heretical to say to say God’s goodness results from an eternal decision to do good, and if He had chosen not that path there would have been nothing. I mean, you can call Him good without this idea, as if He had the goodness of a baby. Some people may have trouble calling Him **Lord **though in that way. I mean we are over here trying to be good and He is walking in eternal bliss which He didn’t earn. I can see how some people would laugh at this
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It might not be heretical, but is not a correct description of God.
 
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