RE: God and Time

God walking into His creation is where the analogy I gave with the
Minkowski spacetime diagrams breaks down.

Moorad

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Jon Tandy
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 2:01 PM
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Subject: RE: God and Time

I would like to suggest a little nuance to the statement "God is outside
our spacetime".

How do we know that God doesn't exist, to some degree, in our 4
dimensions of space and time? By this I mean, let's assume that God is
multidimensional. For sake of argument, let's say He possesses the 10
dimensions required by string theory, plus at least one more dimension
of a spiritual character that puts Him outside the reach of complete
scientific investigation. Those 11 dimensions include the 4 with which
we are familiar, which means that "in a sense" God might be temporal, if
temporal means simply possessing characteristics of our known
dimensions. But He is not temporal, because He is not limited to those.

Jesus in resurrected (immortal) state walked on earth, built a fire and
ate fish. Jesus in resurrected state showed the nail prints in his
hands and feet and they could be felt. But in this same state, he was
able to enter the room through a closed door. The angel in Daniel was
delayed in our dimension of time because of engaging in spiritual
warfare. This indicates to me that God and spiritual beings exhibit
both temporal characteristics (at times) and extra-temporal
characteristics, that theories such as string theory would predict for
multidimensional beings, so He is not bound by the temporal but He is
not wholly separate from it either.

Jon Tandy

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        From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu
[mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Alexanian, Moorad
        Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:31 PM
        To: D. F. Siemens, Jr.; randyisaac@adelphia.net
        Cc: asa@calvin.edu
        Subject: RE: God and Time

        Sometime ago I indicated that the best way to somewhat
comprehend how God views His creation is the way we do in relativity
theory when we draw a Minkowski 4-dimensional spacetime diagram. The
worldlines indicate viewing whole histories of entities at an instant.
God is not temporal but He is outside our spacetime.

        Moorad

         
Received on Fri Mar 31 15:29:55 2006