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Whether it belongs to the Father to be the principle?
Another (Son and Holy Spirit) proceeds from the Father, thus He is rightly called “Principle,” for He is the principle of the entire Godhead since He is unbegotten. The Son is begotten of the Father. Furthermore, another proceeds from the Son to which we know as the Holy Spirit. However, the Holy Spirit does not beget another. Therefore, with all things considered, the Father is the Principle, also known as the First Principle, the Unmoved Mover who puts all things into motion from His initial movement. Whether this name “Father” is properly the name of a divine person? All throughout scripture, He Who Is of Paternity, which we know as Father, is proclaimed as He revealed Himself to mankind for our sake. This was no secret or matter of hidden knowledge, for He revealed Himself as a Father to the Patriarchs, the Prophets, through the Son, and the Apostles of the Church you know today. If this wasn’t so, then that means He would be a liar; but He is truth to the Highest Degree. Now, as we see with some in the Moderni Age, the wicked and unbelievers with malice try to attack His paternity through the false use of confusing words, such as referring to God the Father as “she” or “her.” Radical feminism along with their male spiritual concubines who support them in their wickedness, brought on by faithless marxism, with a dab of materialism, atheism, and modernist thinking has created a generation of feminist ideological militants so enraged and proud that they aim to actually make their Creator like them, a woman in their own image. Yet, this is not so and can never be, because God revealed Himself to mankind as a Father. The truth of who the Lord is does not change just because mankind grows more wicked, darkened, and demented in their thinking. Therefore, those who peddle language arguments in order to lead holy souls astray while proclaiming new age strange theories and false teachings of sex and gender are not correct when they misuse the proper Name of the Father for their own purposes. They greatly harm themselves and others when they deny the known truth that was revealed to them. Whether this name “Father” is applied to God, firstly as a personal name? Remember, there are three ways to look at existence: One, through time which is temporal - subject to birth and death and beginning to end - the realm of matter where the human soul which is wrapped in the flesh and bone of a body dwells. Two, aeviternity which has a beginning but no end and is the proper dominion of the angelic substances (spirit but no body). Three, eternity, also known as infinity, where there is no beginning and end and no subjection to time, corruption, or decay. This is what is proper to the Divine Substance (Godhead). Therefore, what is eternity (God) comes before what is temporal (us) and in the same way God the Father of eternity is also the Father of the Son in that same eternity, so in this way He is personally the Father of the Son in a more intimate and higher way than us as creatures. Finally, creatures can say that God the Father who is the First Principle of everything in existence is also their Father in the sense that He created all of them; however, it is in a less personal way than the direct paternity and filiation as the real relations between God the Father and His Only Begotten Son Lord Jesus Christ. Whether it is proper to the Father to be unbegotten? It is proper for the Father to be known as “unbegotten,” because He is not from another and is known by paternity (The Father of the Son) and common spiration (The Holy Spirit comes from Him). This title unbegotten is proper to Him because of the property of innascibility as was mentioned before.
I am blessed to be a Third Order Lay Dominican. However, the ideas expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the endorsement of or position of the Order of Preachers as a whole.
Commentary regarding Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae derived from: ST part (I), Q. 27-49 from newadvent.org with permission. Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible, revised edition © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
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