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To say that a subject is possible is to say both that it is made possible by God as the all-inclusive object of every subject and that it will be included in God as the all-inclusive subject of every object, and thus also of every subject, if and when it has become actual.

Wiki MarkupIf all possibility \ -\- nondivine and divine \ -\- can be said to belong to any one thing, it presumably belongs to creativity, or concrescence \ -\- along the lines of Hartshorne's statement that "the very idea of potentiality or possibility is to be explicated through the idea of an existing creativity and its \ [_sic\!_\] capacity to decide the previously unsettled" ("Can We Understand God?": 83. But what can be meant by "an _existing_ creativity" except creativity as somehow necessarily instantiated in God and the world? Of course, to speak of God _and_ the world is really to speak of God _as including_ the world.)

Can it be really correct, then, to say that "the realm of possibility, for a theist, is the power of God, God as able to do, rather than as doing" (MVG: 243)?

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