Hi Dave;
I asked:
> > Why would a view of a deity who limits him/herself be "improper"?
> > Perhaps
> > God really wanted to know what Adam would call the animals without
> > "tapping
> > into His/Her omniscience." This surly would make things more
> > interesting
> > for the deity; at least from our point of view. :-)
> >
> > Sincerely
> > George A.
> >
You wrote:
>
> Your question seems to me to assume that somehow God is in time
> eternally. I contend that this is not possible if he is the Creator of
> time, space and mass-energy.
If time is abstracted to change (i.e. more than entropy arrows) -- then
God is in time in that things that are not Holy (i.e. non - Divine) are
changing "around Him". If Holy implies Other, then the statement God is
alone Holy can be understood (among other things :-) ) as meaning God is
not changing ontologically; but this doesn't preclude God existing in an
ever changing environment (heaven). All we know of God is found in Christ
and it is evident from the Christian doctrine of incarnation, that God
indulges in limiting Himself to temporality as we observe it. What is
eternal can be thought of as timeless only in that there is no beginning or
ending.
> Our Lord declared that no one comes to the Father except through him.
> This is a limitation. Could he have set things up differently. Of course.
> Could he change that? He declares that his statements are true. So what
> he has established he will not change.
> Dave
But what about the New Covenant; is it not different than the Old? And what
of God's winking at divorce? He has changed His relationship with us and
will do so again.
Sincerely
George A.
-- George A. Andrews Jr. Physics/Applied Science College of William & Mary P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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