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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Quayle" data-source="post: 77140357" data-attributes="member: 410020"><p>I tend to think that way, yes. But even saying that causes us to think we know what THAT means! There are several good theological philosophical results of thinking about the Nature of God. My favorite, of course, is the Aseity of God. But probably my next favorite is Divine Simplicity, which says (among other things) that all the things we consider God's attributes are not separate in God, not parts of God. Yet, we don't know how to deal with them all together at once —we are bound to consider each separately due to our small minds— yet we must recognize that none of them is without all the others. For eg. when "his anger carries him along" it does not mean he is not also merciful; it doesn't mean he has lost his temper, even if it does mean that there is more imminent danger than we can even conceive of. </p><p></p><p>Haha, believe me this is a favorite subject of mine! I could go on and on. But now I feel compelled to at least mention that most of his attributes directly either imply, or can be drawn from, the fact of his being outside time, and like we said, 'outside of' or of a different sort (degree?) of 'existence' from our own. To my thinking, it is ludicrous to hold him to our notions of 'existence'. </p><p></p><p>But.... we are stuck with having to use words, I guess. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite32" alt=":grinning:" title="Grinning :grinning:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":grinning:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Quayle, post: 77140357, member: 410020"] I tend to think that way, yes. But even saying that causes us to think we know what THAT means! There are several good theological philosophical results of thinking about the Nature of God. My favorite, of course, is the Aseity of God. But probably my next favorite is Divine Simplicity, which says (among other things) that all the things we consider God's attributes are not separate in God, not parts of God. Yet, we don't know how to deal with them all together at once —we are bound to consider each separately due to our small minds— yet we must recognize that none of them is without all the others. For eg. when "his anger carries him along" it does not mean he is not also merciful; it doesn't mean he has lost his temper, even if it does mean that there is more imminent danger than we can even conceive of. Haha, believe me this is a favorite subject of mine! I could go on and on. But now I feel compelled to at least mention that most of his attributes directly either imply, or can be drawn from, the fact of his being outside time, and like we said, 'outside of' or of a different sort (degree?) of 'existence' from our own. To my thinking, it is ludicrous to hold him to our notions of 'existence'. But.... we are stuck with having to use words, I guess. :grinning: [/QUOTE]
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