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Author Topic:   Nature of a GOD?
Hangdawg13
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Message 4 of 32 (121600)
07-03-2004 11:17 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by sidelined
07-03-2004 4:20 AM


God is not BOUND by time as we are. He is not bound by spacial dimensions as we are. In other words, God doesn't have an age and he doesn't have a size and form. He can create on for himself and he did so in JC. He is everywhere and everytime at once. He is bound only by his own character. It is not as though he is absent from space and time. He transcends space and time and has the ability to view everything at once. E.g. a person standing on the street corner watching a parade only sees things as they come along. A person up in a blimp overlooking the parade can see the beginning and end. This is probably where the misconception that he is really OUTSIDE of time comes from; he is only outside the constrictions of space and time.

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Hangdawg13
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Message 5 of 32 (121602)
07-03-2004 11:22 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by arachnophilia
07-03-2004 6:27 AM


creation does not require a creator
haha... now thats ironic. Perhaps you should say, "existence does not require a creator."
if only because of the laws of probability
Who made the laws of probability and ensures that they stay in place? Surely, since we exist without a creator there must be infinite univeres with completely different laws; ones where there is no probability and everything happens for a reason? Hmm...

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Hangdawg13
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Message 7 of 32 (121676)
07-03-2004 10:32 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by jar
07-03-2004 12:04 PM


Re: JMHO & YMMV
You seem to want to bound GOD within some preconcieved limitations on what is possible, or not possible. But that is simply not possible except in an environment that says GOD has limitations.
Yea! I found something to agree with Jar on.
Many of us would say that GOD is time and space, and that he existed before time and space and will exist after time and space.
This adequately describes it for most people, but I like to try to stretch my mind farther. To say he IS time and space is not quite right, but to say the he transcends time and space is right. Obviously it's only an approximation because you are using time words "before" and "after" to explain it. Since God made us inside time and we will live forever, then there will be lots more happenings than just this heaven and earth, and perhaps more than the next heaven and earth. As it says, "no mind has conceived of what lay in store for those who love Him"
He may abolish all known dimensions and create completely new ones.
So, perhaps God's creation is an infinite series of adventures in which God walks with us through them. Of course since, time could be abolished and a different kind of time created, who knows what it will be like. Maybe there will even be more creatures with free-will created and they will go through sin and redemption as well and join the ranks of humans and angels. It's hard to imagine, but who knows?

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