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The idea of lack of boundaries brought this to mind: There have been, I've noticed lately, several statements concerning the notion that infinity is self-contradictory (or other words to that effect). The fact our minds don't know what to do with it doesn't make it a false notion.
But regardless of by what principle, means or method the universe supposedly came to be, it behaves according to principle which it did not cause. Even when I am told that the principles by which it is caused are co-emergent with the universe (which is, of course, self-contradictory) even that principle of co-emergence governs the emergence of the universe. If I am mockingly told that to call God self-existent also subjects him to principle from outside himself, I say no, it doesn't; he is not mechanical fact. He is not subject to, for example, the principle of existence. He is the CAUSE of existence. We might think him subject to our understanding and use of the principle, "existence", but not so —that is only OUR reasoning that demands he submit to it. That he exists, there is no doubt, but we don't know what it means to say that God exists. He doesn't conform to our definitions.
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