monavis
November 7, 2013, 1:27pm
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Trinopus:
Agreed. Also, I’m not sure that “time had no beginning” is meaningful. The clock has been running “forever?” No matter how many hours ago you suggest, the clock was running before that? There really is no “meaning” in any “infinite” declaration of concrete reality.
I simply have to disagree with this. I gave several alternatives. God might be, himself, the “place” he occupies. God might take up no space at all. God might exist in some “otherspace” that has no spatial properties. Or God might have created space at the same time he came into existence himself.
The problem is that we’re deep in the throes of metaphysics, and a theologian can make up any pseudo-property of God that he wants. I respect what you’re trying to say, but I think it simply doesn’t work, because it is so easily answered. e.g., how big is God? Can he compress himself into a small space? Can he compress himself into zero space? Can anyone prove this, either way?
For those who have faith, no question is unanswerable. They merely say, “It’s a miracle” and that ends it. For those (myself included) who do not have faith, the questions aren’t even interesting. I don’t know – and don’t much care – if God occupies physical space or not. There isn’t any non-faith-based way to address the matter.
Indeed. God lives in Faith that he does exist, not in reality, even as other spirits do. No one questions a evil being (like Satan) But they do believe he seems to be almost or as intelligent as a God. So why such a divine Being would create a monster, then allow him to kill his children is a question to ponder. To me it suggests such a Being is not all knowing, loving, or Just.