[Similarly, in biology, no creature can be reduced to cause and effect with respect to either its own entirety or the entirety of other creatures.
This is readily apparent when one creature is free to respond to another.
Some modern gnostics contextualize these responses as divine, “the ecology”, or more comprehensively, “Gaia”.
In technical terms:
Gaia3(spontaneous order and creature2( potential of creatures freely responding to one another1))]
[The term “one” designates the realm of possibility. One is purely monadic. Firstness is a category of existence. Firstness is inclusive and allows contradiction.
Any resolution of the inherent contradictions in “God the One”, immediately brings “God the One” into the realm of actuality.
Yet, one party’s resolution may not agree with another party’s.
Consequently, two or more “God the One” (plural) may be manifest at any moment. Each manifestation has its own advocates.
The immediate solution may be to attack and murder the opposing resolutions (or parties). This solution does not mitigate the potential for further independent resolutions. All manifestations of “God the One” are heretical to all other manifestations of “God the One”.]
Summary of text [comment] page 66
Schoonenberg claimed that sin is not omnipotent. God’s creative power surrounds and limits sin.
We may ascribe the continuing existence of a sinner to God’s redeeming grace. But that is not enough. The sinner’s continued existence is not only an exhibition of grace, but also of judgment.
Hence the cry of the sinner, “It would have been better for me that I had not been born” (Matt.26:24).
[Both judgment and the continuing existence of each person is intrinsic to the triadic relational structure of God Recognizing Himself. Eternal life is a deductive outcome of three persons in one God.
The Father and the Son are Persons in the category of secondness. Secondness is the realm of cause-and-effect. But note, the divine cause and effect is not instrumental. It is relational. The Father recognizes. The Son is recognized.
Creation is potentiated by the Father through the Son.
Both persons become apparent in the context of a third person, the divine Recognition, the Holy Spirit.]
