06-21-2006, 04:28 PM
Bismillah
This question has God bound by space and time: "Can God create a rock that He cannot lift?" For in order for something to be moved, it must travel in space. It must also be limited by time because there is a beginning action for the movement then a conclusion.
Muslims believe that Allah is not bound by space and time. He Created them. Christians believe that God IS bound by space and time because Jesus was fully human and divine. In order for Jesus to exist on earth, he had to take up a space and only that space. If Jesus (in his bodily form) was in more than one place then he is not fully human. Jesus was also bound by time, birth, maturation, and death. Even his accension to heaven had to involve both time and space. This concpet has the Creator bound by his own creation.
Like in the pottery analogy, if I make a vase, is part of my essence, my being in that vase? No. but people can know that i made that vase due to the clues of style and art that are in that vase. I am not bound by the vase yet people can still get to know me on some levels. But since that vase is not who I am then they can never know me fully.
I am also wondering something else. Jesus is fully divine and his body was raised from the dead to live eternally, am I correct? If that is correct, then does that mean when Jesus went to heaven that all of the dead skin cells, hair, blood, etc that he shed over the course of his life also went to heaven with him? If they remained behind, does not that mean that part of God died since Jesus was fully divine? If not, then all those cells are still living outside of Jesus so there are millions of pieces of God?