Posted on 10/10/2022 9:11:35 AM PDT by BEJ
You mind find this very interesting, Red:
“Today’s oceanography and meteorology owe a great debt to Matthew Maury. He exemplified the biblical principle that whatever we do, we should do it “to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). Maury’s scientific research revered God’s Creatorship while benefiting his fellowman.1
“On a monument erected by the state of Virginia to his memory is found a plaque that reads as follows: “Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas, the genius who first snatched from the oceans and atmosphere the secret of their laws. His inspiration, Holy Writ, Psalm 8:8; Ecclesiastes 1:6.”2
“Genius indeed! Maury epitomizes the godly investigator whose creation science begins with the Creator’s written revelation—the Bible.3”
Continued at: https://bibleapologetics.org/matthew-maury-pathfinder-of-the-seas/
“If God is infinite it would take an eternity for him to know himself.”
Eternity? as in time? God made time.
You might want to contemplate Luke 9:10-17 for the answer.
I know the story. I’m not sure I believe it completely literally, as written, anymore than I do the Noah one.
But I think there may be lots of things in the Bible which are actually even more amazing than they seem on the surface.
Mathematician Georg Cantor (1845-1918) was evidently a finite human, yet was able to show that there are different sizes of infinity. For example, he showed that the infinite set of real numbers is larger than the infinite set of natural numbers, but the infinite set of real numbers is smaller than the infinite power set of real numbers.
Cantor was also able to grasp (and show) that the infinite set of real points on a straight line between 0 and 1 is the same size as the infinite set of real points on the infinite lines contained on a plane between 0,0 and 1,1, or, for that matter, the infinite set of real points on all of the infinite planes within a cube (0,0,0 to 1,1,1).
“God resides in dimensions other than the ones we are stuck with.”
The term “dimensions” is very misleading and confusing imho.
I think “reality” is way more complicated and subtle than hairless apes can even imagine.
That is only definitions of infinity. What if there are an infinite number of infinities?
Cantor showed that there are an infinite number of sizes of infinities.
Define space.
No.
Don't bogart that joint, my friend. :^) Welcome to FR. The ex- is the important part.
Thanks. Reading that form is more perfect than matter reminds me of Platonism. That there is a hierarchy of perfection seems to be more Platonic than Aristotelian thought, which goes against the notion that Thomas Aquinas was influenced by Aristotle.
Thanks for that info.
Good question!
Good point. But eternal is also defined as infinite amount of time. Maybe that meaning is a metaphor a pale shade for us who live in a timed based dimension. As well, perhaps if eternity has infinite amounts of time it becomes timeless... like if everybody is important, then nobody is important.
Just read a good book on that, Stephan Meyer’s “The God Hypotheses.”
Right. Aristotle says a similar thing about God: God is thought thinking thought.
Good answer. It’s hard to think of something that doesn’t have extension. Our sense of being has extension in that we know where our being ends and something else begins. Extension implies limits and to think of God as limitless is hard to fathom. Even God as “thought thinking thought” seems to have limits in that one thought will be different from another thought.
Yes the earth is spherical which means that we have to walk that conforms to the earth. But if you walk in space, you walk through space and don’t conform to anything. Or so I would have thought...
LOL
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