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To: James C. Bennett
As a Christian, I would not disagree that once The Creator created the universe, That Creator is changed. He even went so far as to take flesh and dwell among us. the issue revolves around the notions of dimensions Time and Space. Some few who consider the issues want to refute that there is a Creator, so when they confront the notion that Creator brought into existence the dimensions somehow this changes the nature of God prior to the creating.

Christianity addresses this supposed paradox by admitting that the final answer is beyond our human limits, that God manifests in three ways which we Christians believe is the triune nature of God. God may have many more 'unes' but we have evidence of three: God the Creator Who IS and thus IS before and after all that there is + God the Holy Spirit Who sustains the balance which is so delicately posed to keep the universe capable of bringing forth life + God The Son as Jesus The Word Who took flesh and dwelt among us.

In the Christian conceptualization of The Trinity, God The Creator is not diminshed when God The Holy Spirit sustains the entire of the universe, nor is God diminished when The OWrd become flesh and dwells among us. In fact we use an analogy to simplify this non-dimishing nature of the Triune God: when you love, you are not diminished by giving that love (in agape or eros or filia).

723 posted on 01/22/2011 10:12:44 AM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN; kosta50

The problem is not merely that the creator changed after an act, but that the creator was never free from the bondage of time, in the first place. A change of state required to perform something at a finite moment renders the performer chained to the influence of time, both before and after the act was performed. Otherwise, change would not be possible. No change implies no finite moment of creation.


724 posted on 01/22/2011 10:18:59 AM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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