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Q. If God is all powerful, then He can
not be restricted by anything, much less time and space. If we accept that
God exists, then we have to consider that existence as not only outside of time
and space, but before time and space were created by Him. So, the question
is; what was that existence like for Him?
A. The
previous section,
The First Eternity, tells us that God
existed before He created any 'things'. What we want to look at here, is
what this new environment of things was like, before time and space were
created.
To keep it within our ability to
comprehend, we must allow for at least the conditions of 'cause and effect'.
Basically this just means that one thing led to another. We want to try to
avoid placing a sense of time upon these events, but neither our language or
our minds are well suited for this.
The first cause would be God coming
to a realization that a form of separation would be interesting to
experience. God is everything, so to be separate in any fashion is a
contradiction, an impossibly, an overwhelming paradox. Well, God can do
anything, and it turns out He is the master of paradoxes. With the simple
thought of 'other' He had an image of separateness. Now this may have been just a
thought, but it was a totally unique thought, an impossible thought. From
this the doors were open, God thought of more others, then of interactions
and differences.
Avoiding considerations of time, we
can still gently place a consideration that God spent a very long 'time'
playing with these initial 'things'. What is meant here, is that He most
likely didn't go from simple swirling blobs to imagining the rise of
Christianity. There was undoubtedly a few transitions of cause and effect in
there. The Bible doesn't give us a whole lot of detail here, but we do see
that God eventually created His Son, then the Angels, which rose to become a
hierarchy, that helped to build and maintain Heaven, to glorify the name of
God. All of this was before creation as we know it.
The
distinction of God before time then, is the obvious lack of need for such a
thing within the creative processes of God. God doesn't need things, but has
created them to continue His ever expanding nature.
Next
we will look closer at the process of going from
Simple to Big,
which details how the swirling blobs grew to populate the Kingdom of God. |
