Friday, June 30, 2006

Q25 A4: Whether God can make the past not to have been?

No. God cannot effect that anything which is past should not have been because there does not fall under the scope of God's omnipotence anything that implies a contradiction.

As Aristotle says (Ethic. vi, 2): "Of this one thing alone is God deprived--namely, to make undone the things that have been done."