[SoothingDave]

And by the very fact that the Bible details God's interaction with us in terms of time, it precludes that we should think otherwise simply on merit of Scripture.

Maybe it does for you. For me, the very beginning of Scripture invites us to think about the state God was in before He made creation.

the logic of creation implies time in God's creative act, for creation is successive something from nothing

Again, I do not disagree. If we are speaking of the view from our point of reference.

It is as if we were 2 dimiensional creatures in a 2 dimensional world. God can only appear to us as a circle, even though He is a sphere.

SD

[The Grammarian]

Maybe it does for you. For me, the very beginning of Scripture invites us to think about the state God was in before He made creation.

From the beginning, the Bible invites us to think about the state God was in before he created the world with a reference to time. "IN THE BEGINNING, the world was without form, and void."

Again, I do not disagree. If we are speaking of the view from our point of reference. It is as if we were 2 dimiensional creatures in a 2 dimensional world. God can only appear to us as a circle, even though He is a sphere.

And yet we cannot say that he is a sphere because all we are shown is a circle.