Third Distinction
First Part - Questions about God1. Question: Is there good, infinite and eternal production within God? The solution to this question is signified by the definitions of Goodness, Greatness and Eternity and by BC of the Tree, especially Rules B and C.
2. Question: Do the divine dignities or reasons have their own equal acts in God's essence? Solution: apply B, C, G, and I to the loci in the first and second distinctions.
3. Question: Is God the being of his own essence? Solution: go to the first species of Rule C in the first and second distinctions.
4. Question: What does God have naturally and coessentially within Himself? Solution: Go to the second species of Rule C in the first and second distinctions.
5. Question: Does God represent his intrinsic, coessential and natural operation to the human intellect in this life? Solution: Go to the third species of Rule C.
6. Question: What does God have in his effect? Solution: Go to the fourth species of Rule C in the second distinction.
7. Question: Can God produce something else from Himself without diminishing Himself? Solution: Go to the first Rule in the second distinction, the first paragraph on B.
8. Question: Must there necessarily be some differentiation within the Godhead? Solution: Go to the second distinction, the ninth paragraph of rule B and to the second species of Rule C in the first and second distinctions.
9. Question: Is there nature in God? Solution: Go to the definitions of Goodness, Greatness and Power and to the second species of Rules C and D.
10. Question: What does God consist of? Solution: Go to the second species of Rule D in the first and second distinctions.
11. Question: Is God a necessary being? Solution: Go to Rule E.
12. Question: Is God as great in his intrinsic act as in his existence? Solution: Go to Rules E and G and to Flowers B, C and G in the Tree.
13. Question: Is there any properly numeral quantity in God? Solution: Go to Flowers C, D and F and then to the Rules and definitions signified by them in the first and second distinctions.
14. Question: Are there any properties in God? Solution: Go to B, C, D, and G and then to the things they signify in the first and second distinctions.
15. Question: Where is God? Solution: Go to Rule I in the first and second distinctions and to the second species of Rule C.
16. Question: How does God exist and how does He act within Himself? Solution: Go to the second species of Rule C and to the ninth Rule K. However, note that God in Himself is not divided into parts, but has infinite and eternal properties as indicated by Rules B and C.
17. Question: With what does God exist and with what does He act within Himself? Solution: Go to the definitions of Goodness, Greatness etc. and to Rule K in the divine mode and go to the second species of Rule C.We have dealt with the questions about God and shown how to find solutions to questions in the above loci, and all other questions about God can be solved in the same way.