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To: Alamo-Girl; betty boop
[ Thank you so much for the ping! Indeed, God is Spirit: ]

But how fast is spirit?.. or does spirit transcend speed..?
Meaning spirit could make Universal Maintenance possible.?..
All we would need are some spiritual tools to maintain it(the Universe)..
Its all in my book... LoL...
Course you know I'm kidding.. OR DO YOU.?.

1,007 posted on 01/06/2006 10:33:43 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe; betty boop
Thank you for your reply and question!

But how fast is spirit?.. or does spirit transcend speed..?

Speed or velocity is a property of space/time existence. (equivalence principle - acceleration and gravity). Relativistic mass increases with velocity. Time dilation, etc.

Starting point for interested Lurkers: Postulates of Special Relativity

Only spirits anchored to space/time (as when Jesus Christ was enfleshed, we mortal humans, etc.) are space/time-relative and subject to its properties.

Otherwise, spirits are non-corporeal and have no space/time limitations.

1,011 posted on 01/07/2006 9:22:43 AM PST by Alamo-Girl (Monthly is the best way to donate to Free Republic!)
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To: hosepipe; Alamo-Girl; marron; Fester Chugabrew; PatrickHenry
But how fast is spirit?.. or does spirit transcend speed..?

One attribute of God is said to be omnipresence: He is everywhere at once, so "speed" cannot be a factor.

Which observation actually received a scientific treatment, from Sir Isaac Newton no less. It was speculative and controversial in his own time, and still is.

According to Newton's conjecture, God's omnipresence is the determinative factor of Absolute Space, which Newton (unlike Descartes and Leibnitz) conceived of as absolutely "empty." Absolute Space is the manifestation of what Newton called the sensorium Dei, which might be imagined as a sort of universal field that arises from the eternal omnipresence of "God with his creatures," as Newton put it. Newton said that Absolute Space must be empty -- A-G, your Ayn Sof here??? -- in order to "make room" for the coming-into-being of all phenomena in the Universe, which manifest from the creative will of God. For Newton, Space as primary construct is indivisible, universal, and as eternal as God Who produces it, as the primary manifestation of His contact with the universe of created things, via the sensorium Dei of the God Who is "the Lord of Life, with his creatures."

Pretty wild, huh? I bet few folks around here would ever have suspected that the great theorist of mechanics would say such a thing.

1,018 posted on 01/07/2006 11:12:34 AM PST by betty boop (Dominus illuminatio mea.)
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