stevestory
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Quote | 39 mikeendersDecember 15, 2017 at 2:27 pm “Yes, and as an example of His omniscience, God knows every digit in the decimal expansion of ?. I don’t know how ME or anyone could deny that implies God is infinite.”
Its actually quite easy Dave…when you stop thinking of it in human terms. God does not access a knowledge of decimal expansion of anything. He determines what it is.
there are no infinite possibilities “out there”. there are no possibilities till he determines them. KF is wrong. God can create a square circle if he wishes. there are no inherently contradictory core characteristics with it because God determines whats inherent to ANY construct.
If tomorrow God determines that a square is a circle then that will be what it is (even if it requires several more dimensions). God is a Spirit – shape , size dimensions. angles (all which determine whats a circle and whats a square) are all his creations that he created by command where none existed before. So he solely determines the bounds of contradictions because he is the only true bound.
Is very hard for us to grasp a being that completely exists to himself and from which ALL things flow including knowledge, time and physical dimensions. We are used to and surrounded by things that are not ours that we have to access or modify or that hinder us.
So God is not sitting in heaven accessing an infinite storage of the expansion of any human mathematical term so he can give you an answer he draws from his memory. He is above and beyond that. he’ll tell you once what it is and that will be what it is.
This is what the old theologians used to understand of God in the word Sovereign. Nothing exists outside of himself and his decree not even the placement of a decimal
God IS limited……. by and to himself. he will never go outside of himself, think a different thought that is not not his, learn anything new. he will never access any more power than he already has because power does not exist that he does not now already hold. he cannot lie, he cannot become evil and he cannot change – all limits but great ones to have.
To put it more succinctly God does not possess infinite power. He is power. The only power that ultimately exists. So its meaningless to talk about infinitely powerful when there is only one power and its defined by the authority of one entity. Its not meaningless to say all powerful because it highlights he has it all – no one else has any real power.
God is all about authority and all authority is not infinite. its set at one unchangeable constant – all. |
they're sciencing SO HARD at UD these days.
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