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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Alamo-Girl; HarleyD; wmfights; Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; Lord_Calvinus; ...

Kosta: God intercedes within time

Dr. E: Thanks. I'll take that as a "yes" to my question since as you've just stated that God not only works outside of time, but inside time, too

God intercedes in time but He is (exists) outside of time.

Kosta: ...but He is unaffected by it. He cannot be defined in terms of time or space.

Dr. E: I agree generally, but we can and do say "God is limitless" which does have a "sense" of space within the concept

Limits are His creation. I do not agree that He can be "defined" in terms of His creation. Only by denial of His creation, unlimited, uncircumscribed, etc.

They don't give a "sense" of space and limits. Space is meaningless in terms of God.

Alamo-Girl's original statement which you challenged was "There was a beginning of time and a beginning of space."

Alamo-Girl's statement to which I reacted was that eternity is defined in terms of space and time. Knowing that God is eternity, this is a contradiction. God, who is Eternity, cannot be described in terms of space and time.

Eternity cannot have a beginning. Also, creation of space and time is not mutually exclusive of God. He pre-existed time, space and the beginning of both. Neither can eternity be defined in terms of beginning, space or time. The Creation is finite, bound by space and time.

I didn't get the same thing form A-G's post as you did.  The fault could be mine, but it could be hers too.

And as you've agreed, God, the Holy Spirit, works in time. Is that progress, or what?

God's direct intercession in time is manifested by His Incarnation. In the OT God intercedes through angels who, by definition, are also limited (circumscribed) creatures. But God, in His essence, is always outside of time and not limited by space.

 

8,399 posted on 10/05/2007 8:17:26 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Alamo-Girl; HarleyD; Forest Keeper; wmfights; blue-duncan; xzins; P-Marlowe; irishtenor; ..
But God, in His essence, is always outside of time and not limited by space.

Is the Holy Spirit God? Does the Holy Spirit work throughout our lives in real time?

"The testimony of the Spirit is more excellent than all reason.  For as God alone is a fit witness of himself in his Word, so also the Word will not find acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken through the mouths of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts to persuade us that they faithfully proclaimed what had been divinely commanded." -- John Calvin.

Does the Holy Spirit provide this real-tiime function to members of the EO?

8,406 posted on 10/05/2007 11:46:31 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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