----- Original Message -----
From: D. F. Siemens, Jr.
To: jarmstro@qwest.net
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: impassibility
To my mind, all such speculation comes a cropper with the ancient question: What was God doing before he created the universe? It would seem that we have to posit infinite time before, unless we adopt a Neoplatonism that has the creator of the universe being created. Such an emanation could be temporal, but requires a nontemporal ultimate deity.
If the time of the world is transcended by God's time then it is quite consistent to say that God created the world's time, & that it had a beginning, & is therefore not infinite, without saying that God is limited to that created time. You don't seem to be considering such possibilities seriously.
Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Sat Dec 3 09:10:32 2005
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