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    Challenges→In the realm of the spirit, passive suffering is active production

    If passivity and activity were genuinely identical in the spiritual realm, the very intelligibility of divine generation—requiring a real relation between Father and Son—would collapse into undifferentiated monism.

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    Key Terms

    Divine generation(the theological concept at stake in this argument)
    In Christian theology, the idea that God the Son is eternally brought forth or generated by God the Father.
    Intelligibility(asking whether divine generation would still make sense)
    The quality of being understandable or making logical sense.
    Passivity(contrasted with activity in discussing divine properties)
    The state of being acted upon or receiving action from something else, rather than causing action yourself.
    Real relation(Contrasted with a being of reason; requires the relatum to belong to the same order as the other relatum.)
    A relation that is genuinely in a subject by virtue of the subject being really ordered toward another term, grounded in the nature of the subject itself.
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    (where this philosophical debate about God takes place)
    The non-physical dimension of existence concerned with God, souls, and immaterial things—as opposed to the physical world we can touch and see.
    Undifferentiated(describing how the physical arousal is the same regardless of emotion type)
    All basically the same or not noticeably different from each other.
    activity(Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika Abhidharma metaphysics)
    A dharma's causal function of precipitating the next moment within its own consciousness series; also called horizontal causality.
    monism(Used to describe classical utilitarianism as an example of a single-principle moral theory.)
    A moral position that holds there is only one absolute moral principle, such that conflict between principles is impossible.

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