05-29-2004, 09:34 PM
Quote:Where are you going with this?For one thing, I think the basis of your first question is flawed: the question of God's origins, theologically and metaphysically speaking, is not a conundrum at all. Most traditions are very clear on this; Islam, for example, says explicitly through the Qur'an that God \"was not begotten.\" Any description of this entity will necessarily fall short of accurate description, but one way to look at it is that God is That from which the fundamental conditions of the universe are derived, the Essence of the very possibility of Being. Standard physical rules of time, space, and causality do not apply to Him, and as such questions of God's beginning and end are irrelevant.That's exactly where my argument is going.
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"Standard physical rules of time, space, and causality do not apply to Him, and as such questions of God's beginning and end are irrelevant."
We are bound by these physical laws, and hence, we cannot go beyond the our physical boundries and assume that a metaphysical entity created everything that we see around us.