Proof Of An Intelligent Neccesary Cause

[Tomdstone]

Well that is if you think of God as thinking in the same way that we do. When we think, it is a process in time, and thus this kind of thinking cannot be attributed to God accept in a purely analogous sense because God is eternal. It is not (name removed by moderator)ut and output, it is not a sequence in God’s being. Thus this cannot be how God responds to prayer. We do not cause motion in God’s being in literal ontological sense with our prayers…

Prayer and its effects, insofar as they occur in time, our in fact a response to God’s nature. If it is true that the effect of a prayer is consistent with what is truly good (God’s nature) then the effect will become actual in time because it is consistent with the the good plan (divine providence), not because God is moving his ear to our call and responding in time. The universe is responding to God, not the other way round. Gods love is an eternal act, and, in respect of miracles or prayer, creation arranges itself according to the eternal will and plan of God’s eternal divine providence.

No, because when a person obtains an indulgence by his prayer and applies that indulgence to a soul in Purgatory, then God responds and lessens the sentence of that soul.
When the priest says the prayer of Consecration at Mass, God responds and the Host becomes God through the process of Transubstantiation. This movement and response of God would not have happened except that the priest had said the Mass.

 

[IWantGod]

No, because when a person obtains an indulgence by his prayer and applies that indulgence to a soul in Purgatory, then God responds and lessens the sentence of that soul.

God has always and eternally willed the good. His being is goodness itself.

When the priest says the prayer of Consecration at Mass, God responds and the Host becomes God through the process of Transubstantiation. This movement and response of God would not have happened except that the priest had said the Mass.

God has always and eternally willed the good. His being is goodness itself.

If it is true that the effect of a prayer is consistent with what is truly good (God’s nature) then the effect will become actual in time because it is consistent with the the good plan (divine providence), not because God is moving his ear to our call and responding in time. The universe is responding to God, not the other way round. Gods love is an eternal act, and, in respect of miracles or prayer, creation arranges itself according to the eternal will and plan of God’s eternal divine providence.