(August 11, 2010 at 5:05 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: Is god in stasis or is he dynamic in that he has internal processes and acts. If he is in stasis then how did he do the things he is claimed to have done. If he is dynamic than he must exist in an environment which includes time because dynamic events only unfold in time, and if in time then he must exist in a universe and be finite, therefore not god.
I would say, IMO I'd say God would be dynamic. Where your arguement breaks down is that you're presupposing a dynamic being governed by the laws of cause and affect and therefore being constrained by time. If such a being existed that started the universe he would, by defiition be outside the constraints of our understanding of time. Secondly you're presupposing a universe must be finite. Whether it's finite or infinite doesn't matter because from our perspective we can only use the laws and axioms of this known universe whch wouldn't necessarily apply outside of this one.
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