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    It is not the case that There is no act-potency distinction in God; God is actus purus, pure act, wholly actual.

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    • 1.God's free decision to create rather than not create implies a real distinction between what God does and what God could have done otherwise.
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    • 2.A being whose every aspect is wholly necessary and fully actualized cannot be the subject of genuine contingent acts like creation or providential response.
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    • 3.If divine freedom is real, then God possesses unrealized possibilities, which entails something analogous to potentiality.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hegel argues that a being defined as pure, undifferentiated actuality with no internal distinctions is formally equivalent to pure nothingness.
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    • 2.Actus purus, lacking all internal negation and differentiation, cannot serve as the ground of a world characterized by determinacy and distinction.
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    • 1.God is the absolute.
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    • 2.An absolute cannot lack anything nor does it have any need to develop itself: it is, eternally, all that it can be.
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