Re: impassibility

George,
The ancient question is about God's supposed time as much as any time
affecting us.
Dave

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 07:19:51 -0500 "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
writes:

----- 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 15:23:56 2005