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    It is true that God exists in all metaphysically possible... — Carmelics
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    It is true that God exists in all metaphysically possible worlds, but only because in God essence and existence are the same.

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    • 1.God is identical to his existence.
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    • 2.The lack of a distinction between essence and existence is what makes a necessary being necessary.
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    • 1.Necessary existence is a modal property, not an identity relation between essence and existence within a being.
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    • 2.Kripke's possible worlds semantics grounds necessity in truth across all worlds without requiring Thomistic essence-existence identity.
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    • 3.A being can be necessarily existent if its non-existence is impossible in every world, regardless of its internal metaphysical constitution.
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    • 1.If God's essence just is his existence, then 'God exists' becomes analytically true, collapsing necessary existence into a trivial logical truth.
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    • 2.Kant's critique establishes that existence is not a predicate, so identifying essence with existence produces a category error, not a metaphysical explanation.
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    DDS is represented not only in classical Christian theology, but also in Jewish, Greek, and Islamic thought. It is to be understood as an affirmation of God’s absolute transcendence of creatures. God is not only radically non-anthropomorphic, but radically unlike creatures in general, not only in respect of the properties he possesses, but also in his manner of possessing them. It is not just that God has properties no creature has; the properties he has he has in a way different from the way any creature has any of its properties. God has his properties by being them. Unique in his mode of pr...

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