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To: Alamo-Girl
Just a couple of quick remarks on this paragraph from your earlier post, A-G:

In the void of the beginning there is no space, no time, no energy/matter, no physical laws, no physical constants, no mathematics, no logic, no universals, no forms, no autonomy, no qualia, no physical causation. There is no physical causation in the void - the first cause must be uncaused and the only candidate for uncaused cause is God.

The sort of void you describe is indistinguishable from a perfect unity, and so would be indistinguishable from what you're calling 'God'. You're running up against the old problem of coincidentia oppositorum here, and Hegel's "the night in which all cows are black". Care is warranted!

603 posted on 12/08/2005 6:41:53 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored; betty boop; cornelis
Thank you so much for your caution!

Indeed, the Hebrew term for God as Creator (in the void) is Ayn Sof which means "no thing" - One without end from which all being emerges and into which all being dissolves.

It seems like whenever we get into discussions of time - whether on science or religion threads - we end up with the issue of whether God is transcendent or immanent. God is both.

646 posted on 12/08/2005 10:34:15 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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