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To: Hank Kerchief; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; xzins; metmom; MHGinTN; TXnMA; freedumb2003; allmendream; ...
Hank: The first curiosity is, how would you possibly know how God experiences anything, much less time?

bb: I don't. But I have very good reasons for believing that He doesn't experience Time as humans do (unless He wants to, as with Jesus Christ Incarnate), based on category reasons. The Creator and the created "occupy" distinctly different logical categories, which are decidedly inequivalent. Thus one cannot use finite concepts as a measure of God's timelessness, or Eternity. I AM and Eternal Now express the reality of the divine Nature. That's all I need to know.

Hank: Secondly, do you think “time” is a thing or an attribute?

bb: I think it is neither. I think of it as "context" in which things happen i.e., events occur. It is essential to causal entailment in Nature. (So is Space.)

Hank: Finally, one other irresistible question. Do you think for God, time is reversible?

bb: Time itself is a "creature" of God. The Creator is not subject to the laws governing the Creation. One imagines questions regarding the reversibility or irreversibility of time are moot to the Being wholly outside of Time — in Whom we mortals live and move and have our being....

It's a rainy day today. Again. Sigh....

But I'm good! I'm wishing you the same Hank!

848 posted on 06/22/2009 11:01:27 AM PDT by betty boop (Tyranny is always whimsical. — Mark Steyn)
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To: betty boop

How do we, as Christians, know ANYTHING about God? Through the Bible.

2 Paul 3:8 My dear one, do not lose sight of this one thing. A thousand years to the Lord is as a day, and a day is as a thousand years.


850 posted on 06/22/2009 11:12:57 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: betty boop

It’s a rainy day today. Again. Sigh....

But I’m good! I’m wishing you the same Hank!

Thank you and good for you. Happiness does not depend on circumstances. It’s rainy here too, since we are both New Englanders. No sun ‘til Friday I’m afraid. I was really counting on global warming, too. ;>)

Hank.


856 posted on 06/22/2009 12:54:22 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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