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To: jwalsh07

YEP.

To me, it’s simple: What is before time began and after time ends? Easy. God.

What is one inch beyond the end of space? Easy. God.


7 posted on 10/28/2012 9:03:42 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
God is an Awesome God.

He set up rules that we get to learn, and gave us at least one universe to play in, using those rules, if we can figure them out. Maybe more, but we see through a glass, darkly, right now.

We do stuff everyday, today that would have had you burned at the stake 200 years ago.

Organized religion is going to have to learn to accept God's universe(s) as they are. His wisdom, not ours, controls it. All we can do is learn it, to whatever extent we can.

/johnny

11 posted on 10/28/2012 9:16:04 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Really? Reminds me of a movie quote.

[Anson and Garrad have explained they must go and calculate the height.]
Thomas Twp Too: And how d’you know later?
Reginald Anson: Well, w-we’ve made, um, we’ve made measurements with those two hills, and w-we already know the height of Newton Beacon and Whitchurch Hill...
Thomas Twp: But how were they measured?
Reginald Anson: The same way, by comparing them with other hills.
Thomas Twp Too: But who measured the first hill?
Rev. Robert Jones: [whispering] God, my boy. God.


15 posted on 10/28/2012 9:24:05 PM PDT by MeanGreen2008
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Ah, but therein lies a problem: If God is outside Time, then God can neither begin, nor sustain, any action. In other words, a change in the prevailing circumstances necessitates Time. Without Time, all of God’s actions fall onto a singularity, a single moment, simply because outside Time, Time does not exist to separate the events. So, God did not yet think about creating you, God began creating you, and God ended the process of creating you, all at the same moment. That is the consequence of not being under Time. You baked the cake, ate it, and yet are still gathering ingredients for it, all at once - an absurdity. No change is possible without Time elapsing.


20 posted on 10/28/2012 9:41:02 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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