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    It is not the case that All created beings are as nothing in comparison to God

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    • 1.Leibniz demonstrates in the Monadology that created substances possess genuine causal powers and intrinsic perfections irreducible to their relation to God.
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    • 2.A being with irreducible intrinsic perfections cannot coherently be described as 'nothing' relative to another being without committing a category error between absolute and comparative predication.
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    • 3.Edwards' comparison conflates the logical grammar of 'infinite difference' with 'no difference,' an equivocation Kant would later identify as a misuse of regulative ideas as constitutive claims.
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    • 1.Aquinas argues in Summa Theologica that creation participates genuinely in divine being, giving creatures real ontological dignity rather than near-nothingness.
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    • 2.If creatures share in Being Itself (esse), their existence is not merely comparative diminishment but a real, if derivative, mode of existence with intrinsic worth.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.God's power and perfection are so great that all other beings are as nothing to him
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    • 2.All other excellency is as nothing and less than nothing in comparison to God's excellency
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    • 3.The whole system of created beings in comparison to God is as the light dust of the balance
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