St. Thomas Aquinas on Nostr: If a person answers someone who asks why wood is heated: “Because God willed it,” ...
If a person answers someone who asks why wood is heated: “Because God willed it,” he is answering it appropriately, provided he intends to take the question back to a first cause; but not appropriately, if he means to exclude all other causes (ScG 3.97).
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