continue deepening the "Truth of the Faith" through the careful analysis of St. Alphonsus Maria de 'Liguori. We came today to Chapter VI in which, once again, the Holy Doctor of the Church, Bishop and Founder of the Redemptorists prove the existence of God through observation on the existence of souls. What follows is only the first part of the sixth chapter which will followed by five sections we will see in the coming weeks.
For now we just have to read the beginning of this chapter six:
Truth of the Faith
St. Alphonsus Maria de 'Liguori
CAP. VI. We prove the existence of God from the existence of souls.
1. It is certain that in the world there are men who have mind and reason. We say that man is composed of material body and spiritual soul, but the soul is the only one who has the mind and reason. Materialists the meeting say that everything is matter, soul and body, because that one, like the other, are produced by the subject. The leaders of this system were Thomas Hobbes and Benedict Spinoza, the views of 'which refute below, especially of them talking, but here, generally speaking, we want to infer a necessary consequence that the soul can not be produced by matter. It is true the axiom: Nemo dat quod not Habet. this place, that's the argument: the soul is the mind that thinks the matter can not you mind, then the soul can not be produced by matter. Neither applies here oppose: but God is not matter, but, as you say, the matter has been created by God responds to this is that while God has created the material, bench'egli is pure spirit, as he as perfect body contains in itself the perfections of all creatures, so God has in himself, not formally, but eminently matters of any substance. But the matter does not itself contain neither formally nor eminently spiritual substances, and therefore, if the soul could not be produced by matter, so there has to be a spiritual creator of the soul, and this is God's spiritual souls This argument is too compelling to demonstrate the existence of God than to deny this part of God's existence, and that the soul is created by God, you have to say or that the soul is created out of nothing, or which is produced by an infinite number of souls, the one producing the other, but are not the first: o also thinks that the soul is a substance produced by not thinking, that is, from matter, but all these three things are impossible. But as it absurd to say that this materialist would, if the substance cogitante was different from matter, but no, because matter, as say, also can think of. It therefore remains for us the obligation to prove that the body, or both matter do not mind that you may think, and what we will try in all the following paragraphs.
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