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God Without Decisions

Bailey, Denis
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This paper argues that God does not act through decisions. Decision implies sequence, deliberation, and internal temporality—features incompatible with a timeless, non‑sequential God. I propose a non‑decision model in which creation, incarnation, and revelation are not discrete divine choices but intrinsic expressions of divine being. Creation is the manifestation of generativity, incarnation the manifestation of relationality, and revelation the manifestation of intelligibility. These three modes form a single triadic operator through which divine being becomes manifest within temporal reality. This framework preserves divine timelessness, simplicity, and immutability while offering a coherent account of divine engagement with the world. It resolves longstanding tensions in classical theology by grounding divine action in being rather than deliberation, and by showing how what appears as sequence to creatures is, from the divine side, an eternal and unified expression.
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