How would one defend God is a noun and not a verb

[earl40]

with the idea that "God is most pure act" ?

 

[Bill The Baptist]

I would suggest reading "He is There and He is not Silent" by Francis Schaeffer. He does an excellent job of refuting the idea that God is an abstract concept as opposed to a concrete reality. Plus it is less than 100 pages.

 

[earl40]

I would suggest reading "He is There and He is not Silent" by Francis Schaeffer. He does an excellent job of refuting the idea that God is an abstract concept as opposed to a concrete reality. Plus it is less than 100 pages.

Does it connect the idea that God is "pure act"?

I ask in that I can defend Our Lord is a noun simply by stating that God (noun) loves (verb) with many references on how He relates to us as revealed in scripture, and that a verb, being a noun,is not a personal entity but a description of an action.

 

[Ryan&Amber2013]

I didn't know someone could believe otherwise. He is Father in Scripture. This is surely a person "noun."

 

[RamistThomist]

The phrase "pure Act" means that God doesn't have any potency in him. It's not like saying God is a verb, as in the sense, "He 'Godded' the world today."

 

[Dachaser]

All of his books are instructive in having us build up and use a "Christian mindset"

 

[earl40]

The phrase "pure Act" means that God doesn't have any potency in him. It's not like saying God is a verb, as in the sense, "He 'Godded' the world today."

Thank you...short, sweet, and succinct.