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    Challenges→Human life cannot get close to the life that truly is (divine being).

    The premise that 'no proportion exists' ignores the Thomistic analogia entis, which establishes a proportional likeness between finite and infinite being sufficient for real closeness.

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    Analogia entis(as a key concept in medieval theology and philosophy)
    Latin phrase meaning 'analogy of being'—the idea that different things (like God and humans, or infinite and finite things) can be compared and understood through their similarities, even though they're fundamentally different.
    Proportional likeness(as a relationship between finite and infinite being)
    A similarity between two things based on the way they relate to each other rather than their absolute qualities—like how a small cup is 'full' in the same way a large cup is 'full,' even though they hold different amounts.
    Real closeness(as the outcome of proportional likeness between finite and infinite)
    An actual, meaningful connection or relationship between things, not just something imagined or purely theoretical.
    Thomistic(describes a particular school of philosophical thought)
    Related to the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, a medieval Christian thinker who tried to combine Aristotle's ideas with Christian theology.

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    finite being(Paul's ontology of extramental entities)
    A thing (such as a man or a horse) really existing outside the mind, made up of a primary substance and a host of forms existing in it and by it
    infinite being(Used to describe God as the required cause of the idea of infinity.)
    A being whose nature is characterized by infinity; equated by Descartes with a perfect being.

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