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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · logic, method, and demonstration · jerome · fate, destiny, and necessity · contradiction · augustine contra faustum
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“This is what Augustine means when he says (Contra Faust. xxix, 5): "Whosoever says, If God is almighty, let Him make what is done as if it were not done, does not see that this is to say: If God is almighty let Him effect that what is true, by the very fact that it is true, be false":” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) · precept
In disputing whether God can make the past not to have been, Thomas says such a denial implies contradiction, so it lies outside God’s omnipotence.
cannot make a thing that is corrupt not to have been corrupted." Therefore, for the same reason, He cannot effect that anything else which is past should not have been. *I answer that,* As was said above (Q. 7, A. 2), there does not fall under the scope of God's omnipotence anything that implies a contradiction. Now that the past should not have been implies a contradiction. For as it implies a contradiction to say …