Hey, Need Some Help, Space Infinite/Finite?

[Knarf188]

Hey Everyone,
I am taking a class on Space/Time and I would really like to tie it into a Christian scope for my term paper. I am deciding/praying on a thesis and am kind of leaning towards A finite Space. For if God truely did create the Universe and it were infinite God could not be outside of the universe (outside of his creation), for nothing is greater than the infinite. Therefore, I would talk it about God and a finite universe. Also I am going to tie Leibniz in this, for he stated that God has to be rational... To some extent I agree with this, but I feel as though what might be rational for us, might not be the same for Him.
I really need help on this topic, so any advice (preferably scripture) would help me out immensely, thankyou...
Take kare and God Bless
In Christ,
Frank

 

[Sinai]

Hey Everyone,
I am taking a class on Space/Time and I would really like to tie it into a Christian scope for my term paper. I am deciding/praying on a thesis and am kind of leaning towards A finite Space.

That's what both the Bible and the big bang theory would suggest.....

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

Hey Everyone,
I am taking a class on Space/Time and I would really like to tie it into a Christian scope for my term paper. I am deciding/praying on a thesis and am kind of leaning towards A finite Space. For if God truely did create the Universe and it were infinite God could not be outside of the universe (outside of his creation), for nothing is greater than the infinite. Therefore, I would talk it about God and a finite universe. Also I am going to tie Leibniz in this, for he stated that God has to be rational... To some extent I agree with this, but I feel as though what might be rational for us, might not be the same for Him.
I really need help on this topic, so any advice (preferably scripture) would help me out immensely, thankyou...
Take kare and God Bless
In Christ,
Frank

God could exist outside an infinite universe. Imagine an infinite line. Now imagine a point in space off of this line. The line is infinite, but the point exists outside of it.

 

[Knarf188]

Universe has like 11-Dimensions, length, depth, width, time, etc. so I do not think it could be confined to a straight line. infinite means without bounds, not the number line infinity, eg all real numbers... any more advice/scripture??

 

[ThePhoenix]

Universe has like 11-Dimensions, length, depth, width, time, etc. so I do not think it could be confined to a straight line. infinite means without bounds, not the number line infinity, eg all real numbers... any more advice/scripture??

Our universe probably has eleven dimensions. Any higher dimensional construct could exist outside it, and still not intersect it.

 

[megajune]

Just a thought - God existed before he created the universe. Kinda shows that God can exist outside of 'time and space' becuse he existed before they did.

However, it's an interesting topic! I love it when people write logically sound papers about metaphysics.

 

[Late_Cretaceous]

I always think that the whole universe is really nothing more then a figment of God's imagination anyways.

 

[fragmentsofdreams]

Universe has like 11-Dimensions, length, depth, width, time, etc. so I do not think it could be confined to a straight line. infinite means without bounds, not the number line infinity, eg all real numbers... any more advice/scripture??

It was an analogy. The point is that an infinite thing can exist outside another infinite thing.

 

[gluadys]

Gerald Schroeder ("Genesis and the Big Bang") recounts some Tamudic thinking on this point.

The rabbis saw God as infinite in Being (not in space-time dimensions). But, they asked, how could the universe exist outside of God if God is infinite in Being?

Their conclusion was that God had to "shrink" God's infinite being to make room for something else to be----and that is how space/time came into existence.