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Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:34:53 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Say, if it took God six days to create the heavens and the earth and the sea
> and all that is in them, this would seem to indicate that God isn't
> infinitely fast...that good things take time.
If I were to wax philosophical, like Mr. Lehman, days would seem like
millennia, if I were to wax philosophical. ;-)
Perhaps -- and this is purely guesswork -- time was conceived to allow good
things to happen.
It's pretty much stated in Genesis what each day was used for. Looking at
Genesis, God had certain tasks to accomplish, in a certain order, before the
world was finished; e.g. he saw a void, created light, divided light from
darkness, gave them a name, etc. and this took up a day. Again presumably,
He took the time to do it right.
Another thing you have to consider is that God said, "Let there be light";
and then He saw it and that it was good (i.e. He gave it an inspection) --
suggesting that He had help, arguably a host of angels, with at least some
of the creation. Administrative tasks being what they are, I wouldn't be
surprised if most of the day was taken up by that.
> Maybe He could make the
> Universe blink *out* of existence instantly, but if Creation took six whole
> days, then how could everything after that be foreknown? (Unless part of
> Creation also consisted of the rigorous process of going about to foreknow
> everything, and maybe that took 5.9999999999 of the 6 days. :-)
Nah. I'm sure He had most of it worked in His head out before He started to
work on it.
Cheers,
- jsproat
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Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives
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