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im probably going to stop reading bcs too little time but leaving the refutations/thoughts(of which there were enough) here as currently-reading

Rumination: God's power should hold no limits, so his power should be infinite. But if it is infinite, it would mean that God is not One, since what is One cannot be infinite. Moreover, God lacks the capacity to be infinite, because then it would not be one entity. For anything that is One, it is not possible to be infinite.

But then, it's a contradiction or tautology, as is often the case...

Might one try to resolve his contradictions by noting that: God is the form of matter? Then it could have all the properties of matter but actually rather than potentially, as form, and enable also the distinctness of individuals. You ascend to God in thought by inquiring why "this", which isolates the matter as a form to be posited tautologously in order to explain it.

Ofc Aquinas denies the previous implications...The God-concept could be seen as taking the notion of matter and reinterpreting it as actuality: God is potentiality made actual. If in a discrete thing potentiality to be something else manifests only as being actually what it is, God's actuality manifests only as its potentiality to not create the world. Apophatic God is matter reified.

Hooly shit and it continues with the obvious one: the two things beyond our grasp by definition, materia and God. Hmmm...Less surprisingly, the medieval Catholicism was already "corrupted" or internally tense. Which was intentionally put there by people who forged the antique writings and invented certain author identities. New constellation mythology: classical tradition, postmodern version of astrotheology

The Aeropagite Creep (not only were the books written, but the authors also): For Aquinas, if matter is that in virtue of which something might not be and if God is that on whom world's existence depends, it means that God is that in virtue of which the world might not be, which in turn means the world is the form and God is its matter. Or...Mater. In Aquinas' view, matter is active and form is passive.