On Dec 24, 11:46 am, Molly <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think the creator can be separate from creation (aka there is > only Brahman.) In otherwords, creation is the Divine Ground with > gives rise to the creator, but is not separate from. I don't find this > view at all different from the Christian model of Father Son and Holy > Spirit, but I know this is not a popular view. From this view I > suppose God would be all time as opposed to no time or beyond time. > But then again, for me, I find the creator beyond thought, where I AM > everything and everyone and all that is. >
And, of course, Plato didn't have access to the kind of scientific knowledge that we do now. I look at Creation (the 4-D world we see around us) as the sandbox that God plays in. His toys, though, are ideas that are in His mind and, if He wants to, He can move them from there to here and...they will exist (spatio-temporally). We, too, participate in this process when we think of something new and create it. Any human 'invention' is an example. In truth, the inventor is God, but we are a tool He uses to create other things. > On Dec 24, 1:18 am, Alan Wostenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You say God is eternal and creation is eternal. In the same sense? > > Philosophers distinguish between eternity as timelessness from eternity as > > everlastingnesshttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/eternity/- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text -
