Re: [asa] Humanity and the Fall: Questions and a Survey (imagination)

Bernie,

I think your idea of the "6th sense" is right on. In a sense, that is even
what I was trying to get at. Our imagination is how we probe things beyond
what we can sense. Imagination, as David points out, helps us liken things
like solar systems to atoms, to help us get a firmer grasp on both, though
the model is not perfect.

God is beyond our senses. Therefore, we use our brains (or our
imaginations) to help us get a grasp on who he is and what he is like. If
we then find ourselves unable to imagine God being a certain way (i.e.
eternal) it behooves us to create a mental model that better represents how
we understand God.

Which brings us back to Phil's question: Does an eternal God mean a static
(and I would add, impassible) God? Or is there a mental model we can use to
understand an eternal, but dynamic God?

Dave: From my reading of Augustine, he seems to be saying that anything that
was a process (seven-day creation or evolutionary creation) would be
inappropriate for God because that would mean he in some sense would 'stoop'
to enter time. Therefore, creation had to be instantaneous because an
eternal God could only interact instantaneously without compromising his
'eternality'. When you speak of the mistranslation, where are you talking
about? I'm not sure that I'm familiar with the passage you are referring
to, could you let me know so I can read up on it?

Thanks!
Bethany Sollereder

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Received on Thu May 1 17:24:11 2008