Theological Theses · §1960 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

It would also make God mutable and his knowledge imperfect

It would also follow that God is not free from all change. Since God knows present things, if he was ignorant of them before they existed, he learned something from the outcome itself and passed from not knowing to knowing, which cannot be conceived without some change in God.

It further follows that God's knowledge is not perfect, since on this hypothesis it grows and advances in what it knows every day.

Latin

IX. Inde sequetur etiam Deum non esse omnis mutationis expertem. Cum enim Deus praesentia cognoscat, si antequam essent illa ignorabat, aliquid didicit ipso rerum eventu, & factus est ex non sciente sciens, quod sine aliqua in Deo mutatione concipi non potest. Quin inde consequens est, scientiam Dei perfectam non esse, quandoquidem, ex hac hypothesi, quotidie in cognitione augetur & proficit.

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