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To: GonzoII

Thank you for the quotes.

Dan 2:21 - God controls what happens in time.

Acts 17:26: “And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place” - God controls what happens in time.

Romans 11:36: “For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever.” No indication He is outside of time, or that time is not integral to His actions. Eternal, but not necessarily outside of time.

Acts 1:7: “7He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.” God controls what happens when, but this doesn’t show God outside of time.

So I guess we disagree, but I thank you for your post.


61 posted on 11/01/2009 12:53:20 PM PST by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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To: Mr Rogers; GonzoII
Again, we would need to do some work on how God can mqanipulate time without being outside of it.

On another track -- philosophical question, I fear -- how can we talk about God in time without slipping into a kind of ditheism :God and Time. Would we want to say God MADE time?

My head hurts.

65 posted on 11/01/2009 1:09:14 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin: pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Can one bound by time control time?


86 posted on 11/02/2009 12:28:14 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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