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+Whether God Is Composed of Matter and Form?
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+Objection 1: It seems that God is composed of matter and form. For
+whatever has a soul is composed of matter and form; since the soul is
+the form of the body. But Scripture attributes a soul to God; for it
+is mentioned in Hebrews (Heb. 10:38), where God says: "But My just man
+liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please My
+soul." Therefore God is composed of matter and form.
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+Objection 2: Further, anger, joy and the like are passions of the
+composite. But these are attributed to God in Scripture: "The Lord was
+exceeding angry with His people" (Ps. 105:40). Therefore God is
+composed of matter and form.
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+Objection 3: Further, matter is the principle of individualization.
+But God seems to be individual, for He cannot be predicated of many.
+Therefore He is composed of matter and form.
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+Contrary: Whatever is composed of matter and form is a body;
+for dimensive quantity is the first property of matter. But God is not
+a body as proved in the preceding Article; therefore He is not
+composed of matter and form.
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+Response: It is impossible that matter should exist in God.
+First, because matter is in potentiality. But we have shown (Q. 2, A. 3)
+that God is pure act, without any potentiality. Hence it is
+impossible that God should be composed of matter and form. Secondly,
+because everything composed of matter and form owes its perfection and
+goodness to its form; therefore its goodness is participated, inasmuch
+as matter participates the form. Now the first good and the
+best--viz. God--is not a participated good, because the essential
+good is prior to the participated good. Hence it is impossible that
+God should be composed of matter and form. Thirdly, because every
+agent acts by its form; hence the manner in which it has its form is
+the manner in which it is an agent. Therefore whatever is primarily
+and essentially an agent must be primarily and essentially form. Now
+God is the first agent, since He is the first efficient cause. He is
+therefore of His essence a form; and not composed of matter and form.
+
+Reply Objection 1: A soul is attributed to God because His acts
+resemble the acts of a soul; for, that we will anything, is due to our
+soul. Hence what is pleasing to His will is said to be pleasing to His
+soul.
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+Reply Objection 2: Anger and the like are attributed to God on
+account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly
+the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of
+as His anger.
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+Reply Objection 3: Forms which can be received in matter are
+individualized by matter, which cannot be in another as in a subject
+since it is the first underlying subject; although form of itself,
+unless something else prevents it, can be received by many. But that
+form which cannot be received in matter, but is self-subsisting, is
+individualized precisely because it cannot be received in a subject;
+and such a form is God. Hence it does not follow that matter exists in
+God.
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