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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
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Subject: Re: A theological question
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 12:10:10 EDT
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David, et al

Let me throw some doctrinal talk at you about some properties
that most of the major Christian sects agree that God has.

Omnipotence - God is capable of doing anything that is "do-able"
which does not include logical absurdities like a square circle
or making a stone so big He could not move it.

Omniscience - God knows the beginning from the end.

Omnipresence or Immanence - God is not localized like we are.

Transcendence - Tied in very close to Immanence but in severe
tension with it is God's property of transcendence - He is not
part of Creation.  This concept differs from Eastern God concepts
where "all is one" or perhaps the thought that God = Universe.

Relativity question - Your query on "Can we pray to God for
suspension or reversal of time for us ?" (that is the way I
interpret the heart of your question).

First, I think that IS possible for God but I think He generally
wouldn't do it.

Universal Law #? - "The Law of Sowing and Reaping" - Somewhere in
the catalog of Universal Laws we have to deal with this item.

I state this Law and offer no more objective proof than the agricultural
cycles.  I believe that human behavior operates by this law in the
natural world.  There are consequences for our human actions.
However, the confusion arises because it appears that the Spiritual
world impinges on the Natural in ways that we call miracles.

Is raising people from the dead an action that satisfies our
relativistic question ?  Jesus is recorded to have busted up
every funeral He ever went to by raising the decedent.

Well, enough for now...



Bob Brown {...clyde!akgua!rjb}
AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga
(404) 447-3784 ...  Cornet 583-3784