The idea of the analogy of being compromises the biblical doctrine of creation. It tends to reduce the distinction of God as Creator and man the creature to that of the Greek notion of man's participation in being as such. According to the Greek view of reality, especially as set forth in the philosophy of Aristotle, called 'the philosopher'by Thomas Aquinas, all being is ultimately one. All individual beings are being to the extent that they participate in this one ultimate being. According to Aristotle, God has the fulness of being. As such he is pure Act. At the lower end of being, not found in any actually existing thing that man can know, is pure potentiality of being. Man exists between pure actuality and pure potentiality of being. There is, therefore, a continuity of being between man and God. Man may increase in his participation of God as pure act. There is also discontinuity of being between man an God. Man is near the realm of pure non-being,. He participates, as it were, in non-being as well as in being. It is thus that for Aristotle the principle of potentiality and actuality control the relationship between God and man. This relationship is therefore one of process. It is activistic. It is the natural working out of the principles of continuity and of discontinuity of a general being.

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