Dear Glenn,
God is not subjected to the laws that define our spacetime. It is in that
sense that I say that God is not in our spacetime. The same goes for the
Holy Spirit. However, Christ was subjected to those laws but could override
them. I do not confuse predications with prophesies and my main concern was
predications about individual lives that would deny free will in a person.
God communicates with us through His Word, whose obedience to it would
determine all our actions. I am not sure about the mystics and how they
communicate or "sense" God.
Take care,
Moorad
-----Original Message-----
From: glenn morton <mortongr@flash.net>
To: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: Possible impact of ID
>Hi Moorad
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Moorad Alexanian" <alexanian@uncwil.edu>
>
>> I think one ought to distinguish between knowing the future and telling
>the
>> people involved in the predications about the future. A person living in
>> our spacetime and knowing the future can make predications that we can
>know
>> and verify. But God, although He knows the future, does not make
>> predications because He is not in our spacetime to tell us of His
>> predications. The interactions between God and the universe and its
people
>> is a difficult one. I am just stating my own guesses. But Scripture is
>> always correct and our understanding of our experiences has to fit with
>that
>> fact.
>
>This is a much more deistic position than the one I am often accused of
>taking. I see several theological problems here. First, is God really
>subject to a space-time manifold? If so, it would imply that God is
>material. At least as I understand space-time from my physics profs, it
only
>applies to matter/energy. Secondly, God, through the Holy Spirit is
>supposed to be involved in this universe leading us to truth. If God is in
>another space-time, unable to tell us something, then who is the Holy
>Spirit? Thirdly, is God unable to communicate with man? If he can't
>communicate, then there is no inspiration for the Bible--at least no
>inspiration from Him. So, who did inspire the Bible (or alternatively, is
>it merely a book written by a small group of men with no particular
>importance to be attached to it?) Fourthly, the first prediction in the
>Bible was in the Garden and concerned the advent of Christ. So I would
>contend that God does make predictions. If He doesn't, who did predict the
>Christ in Genesis 3?
>
>glenn
>
>Foundation, Fall and Flood
>Adam, Apes and Anthropology
>http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
>
>Lots of information on creation/evolution
>
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