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To: C. Edmund Wright

I asked you a very simple question: How is the temporal separation of events possible without Time?

The relevance of this question pertains to the claim that God is outside Time.

Just as God cannot be evil, since that would be an absurdity, the lack of temporal separation causes all events in a Timeless realm to collapse into a singularity moment (a logical consequence of the lack of Time). In such a realm, God did something and yet didn’t do it, simultaneously. This is the absurdity which arises from an entity ordering sequential events in a Timeless realm. How do you resolve it?


54 posted on 10/29/2012 9:24:29 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett

You’re a hoot. Obtuse. Stubborn. A prisoner of your own templates while absurdly thinking you are above them - but a hoot nonetheless.

I’ll pray for you. I’m done chatting with you.


58 posted on 10/29/2012 10:01:56 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright ("You Might Be a Liberal" (YMBAL) Coming out Sept 1 by C. Edmund Wright)
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To: James C. Bennett

“In such a realm, God did something and yet didn’t do it, simultaneously. This is the absurdity which arises from an entity ordering sequential events in a Timeless realm. How do you resolve it?”

I can imagine the scene at your judgement. In the smallest unit of TIME, it will be evident, and you have just enough TIME to utter one word...

“Oh...”

Best of luck. I was as arrogant as you at one time, relying on my printed IQ score to blaze my trails before me, only to realize that the more I knew, the less I knew. Hubris to humility is a journey, friend. Don’t be so reliant on your own understanding, because it is not all that.
Back in the day I’d compare brain pans with you, but these days I just pray.

To human eyes, too much of light
Is blinding as the blackest night.
And this is so, too, of the mind,
In total ignorance it’s blind.
But more truth than it can absorb
Will overwhelm the mental orb.
So, lest our vision burn to ashes
God shows us truth in bits and flashes,
White revelations that the brain
Can comprehend and yet stay sane.
And we, poor fools, demand truth’s noon
Who scarce can bear its crescent moon.
— “White Revelations,” by Georgia Starbuck Galbraith.


79 posted on 02/20/2014 1:41:18 PM PST by ImaGraftedBranch (...By reading this, you've collapsed my wave function. Thanks.)
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