From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 13:26:22 EDT
I've said things like what follows in the past and have had my head beat in.
Nevertheless, I'll try again.
God does not exist inside of time. He does not have to wait for an event to take
place before he can act on it. In other words, causality is not a restriction
that we can place on God. It is perfectly reasonable and possible for God to
make something happen in the past because of a future event which he knows
about.
Our universe is one of increasing entropy and death from the very "get-go".. It
can still be "caused" by the fall of Adam. This, of course, would imply that the
universe was made for man and other intelligent life is not likely.
I'd better stop,
Walt
Ted Davis wrote:
> Sheila's question about death before the fall, as I've said often here and
> elsewhere, is IMO the *central* theological question concerning origins. (I
> mean by this that theodicy in general, including the traditional way of
> phrasing it in terms of the fall, is the central question. Others may of
> course see this differently.)
>
> The question as she put it, simply won't go away. I note its presence in
> just her way of stating it, on the current program of the European Creation
> Sociey meeting:
>
> http://www.genesis-vus.se/8thecc/programme.html
>
> I've written some historical things about this question in an essay about
> to come out in a book from Eerdmans, Perspectives on an Evolving Creation,
> edited by our own Keith Miller (many thanks for the tireless effort,
> Keith).
>
> Some other essays also deal partly with that question, and other related
> questions. For details on the book, go here:
> http://www.eerdmans.com/shop/product.asp?p_key=0802805124
>
> ted
-- =================================== Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>In any consistent theory, there must exist true but not provable statements. (Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic If you have already found the truth without it. (G.K. Chesterton) ===================================
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