RE: Why, God? Why?!
February 8, 2018 at 8:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2018 at 8:54 pm by Whateverist.)
(February 8, 2018 at 4:44 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 8, 2018 at 12:25 pm)SteveII Wrote: That is definitely not my belief. God does not experience all points in time simultaneously. Quite the contrary. Before the universe: timeless, since the moment of creation: temporal. Given that, there is no logical contradiction in God having a relationship with someone or experiencing desires.
SteveII, I have a problem with any suggestion that God is subject to change. Being fully actualized God's state is in complete satisfaction of His will. For God there can be no before state of unfulfilled desire.
That highlights an apparent problem to which I think Lady Camus points. Does the act of creation in some way complete God, implying a lack of self-sufficiency?
I'll never understand how you know so much about that which is so far beyond your understanding.
(February 8, 2018 at 6:27 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I can't remember the last time I drowned any of my kids..or ordered one to kill the other.
What kind of parent are you? Obviously not a holy one.