Anti-Theistic Theories : Being the Baird Lecture for 1877
Anti-Theistic Theories : Being the Baird Lecture for 1877
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J is not a Spinozistic substance. In like manner, the proposition that one substance cannot be produced by another substance has been repre- sented as equivalent to a denial of the possibility and reality of creation, a denial of the very first words of the Bible, — " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. " But again there is 2 A 370 Anti-Theistic Theories.
obvious misconception. If God created the heavens and the earth, the heavens and the earth are not self-existent — are no...t, according to Spinoza, sub- stances. Spinoza does not deny that God pro- duced things, but that He produced things the essences of which involve existence. What he affirms is, that God is not only the cause why things begin to exist, but also why they continue in existence. His language is pantheistic in sound, but had he adhered strictly to his own definitions it would have been quite consistent with theism in signification. Not unnaturally, however, he was the dupe of his own language, and fancied that he disproved the possibility of creation in the ordinary acceptation of the doctrine.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
J is not a Spinozistic substance. In like manner, the proposition that one substance cannot be produced by another substance has been repre- sented as equivalent to a denial of the possibility and reality of creation, a denial of the very first words of the Bible, — " In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. " But again there is 2 A 370 Anti-Theistic Theories.
obvious misconception. If God created the heavens and the earth, the heavens and the earth are not self-existent — are no...t, according to Spinoza, sub- stances. Spinoza does not deny that God pro- duced things, but that He produced things the essences of which involve existence. What he affirms is, that God is not only the cause why things begin to exist, but also why they continue in existence. His language is pantheistic in sound, but had he adhered strictly to his own definitions it would have been quite consistent with theism in signification. Not unnaturally, however, he was the dupe of his own language, and fancied that he disproved the possibility of creation in the ordinary acceptation of the doctrine.
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