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To: Physicist
Isn't it interesting that God refers to Himself in the present tense. Not "I WAS" or "I WILL BE"

I think it's safe to assume that God exists in a state outside of time and outside of the physical universe - a state of being that just "is" and has no past of future.

Time brings with it the inevitable concept of change. Since God is perfect, and perfection can't change, then a perfect being would have no time-reference.

The Hebrews were quite clear that God is unchanging and perfect - interesting considering they may not have been able to conceptualize a state of "no-time" in our abstract 21st century ways.

All "time" is present to Him at once - He must look on the past, present and future as we would flip pages in a book.

I think of the universe as a created bubble in the no-time God state.
76 posted on 02/16/2004 10:30:41 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus
I think of the universe as a created bubble in the no-time God state.

Ah...so you're saying that it's not logically impossible for something to exist that is external to our space and time?

77 posted on 02/16/2004 10:34:40 AM PST by Physicist (Sophie Rhiannon Sterner, born 1/19/2004: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1061267/posts)
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