2007-03-01 07:48:12 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He's not real...that's correct.
2007-03-01 07:52:27 · update #1
Father K: In any number of dimensions, if you are outside of them, you're not in them.
2007-03-01 07:54:30 · update #2
Recon: True, but that is not how God is defined. He is defined as being transcendent or outside of space and time. That means he can't be outside and inside simultaneously or he would no longer be transcendent. If you want to go against the bible that's up to you.
2007-03-01 07:59:39 · update #3
tlbs: Fine, but if God just exists in a higher dimension, it's still part of the universe so that's not outside.
2007-03-01 08:00:59 · update #4
"Transcendent" does not necessarily mean /outside of/ our four-dimensional space-time. In a Theistic context it is intended to mean "not limited by." God's extradimensionality can be visualized in a simplistic way by the simple analogy of a line (1-D) lying within a plane (2-D). He can operate anywhere on His "plane," which includes our "line," but is by no means limited by it.
2007-03-01 11:27:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In my view, this universe is multi-dimensional (just ask any physicist -- they may argue over how MANY dimensions, but all will say its multi-dimensional). God created the universe, so he must exist in more dimensions than his creation, probably at least 2 more, than the universe exists as. Since God exists in a superset of our universe, He is everywhere in our universe at all times (time is just another "dimension" of existance). That's why he is outside of time, outside of space, yet can be everywhere, at everytime.
It's like the 'flatlanders' -- those 2-dimensional flat people. We exist in 3 dimensions, so we can see all of flatland without being IN flatland. We can see inside the guts of Mr. flatland, and he doesn't even know we are there. We can poke our finger into flatland and Mr. flatland will see the outline of our finger magically appear, then when we pull our finger up, to him, it just vanished.
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2007-03-01 15:58:49 · answer #2 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Correction:
Lets say I have two pieces of paper. Well i label one susie and the other one john. So they exist in a 2d world and all the can know is 2d. Then me being a 3d person i decide that i am going to stick my finger in their world. Well john looks at it and says hey look a circle. He can't realize the depth because it is past his knowledge. Well in the same way is God. There is a verse in the Bible which suggest God is 4d, spiritual being. And if this is so then we are like john, we can't fully understand Him, becuase it is out of our realm.
2007-03-01 16:01:00 · answer #3 · answered by Theoretically Speaking 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Omni-all
Present-present
"He's not real, that's correct."
-That is INCORRECT! You cannot make an absolute statement on something you cannot prove. How do you KNOW it is true that he doesn't exist? Ignorant if you ask me!
Edit 1-
Regarding your response to Father K.: You can be outside of something and inside of something at the same time. I am in clothing right now but part of me is outside of the clothing.
2007-03-01 15:54:56 · answer #4 · answered by Jeff- <3 God <3 people 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you. You are begining to understand why God is a Trinity. In order to be God, part of him must be outside Time and space, but in order to work with man God must inside Time and Space. Now in order for the "Part" of God that is inside time and Space to Communicate with the "Part" that is outside Time and Space, there must be a third "Part" that can bridge between those two aspects.
Since being outside "time and space "is not even imaginable for any person.(If you can explain what it is like to be outside time and space, I would love to hear about it.), the intracacies of God must be overwhelming to every man.
Can it be that Heaven is outside time and space?
2007-03-04 09:49:58 · answer #5 · answered by free2bme55 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe our perception of God is so small, but I know that God is Life and energy. God is in the smallest life forms, in the atoms, in your cells, in whatever is smaller than an atom... and yet God is also so big, he's inside the universe, and outside the universe and whatever that's beyond the universe. So God essentially is in everything... so that's how.
2007-03-01 15:54:03 · answer #6 · answered by fergalicious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in God then you must blindly believe in whatever your religion is spitting out, otherwise you won't be a good religious disciple. lol
We dance around the hole and suppose while the truth sits in the middle and knows.
2007-03-01 15:59:03 · answer #7 · answered by Rothwyn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And who said He was outside the universe? He is greater than the universe, that's all.
2007-03-01 15:56:15 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, none of those characteristics make sense. There is no reconciliation of the multitude of assertions made by Christians. He's not omnipresent. He's not real!
2007-03-01 15:51:32 · answer #9 · answered by eastchic2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weak argument if you ask me. But we already have proved the cosmos is self sustaining why bother dealing with the notion of god.
2007-03-01 15:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by Beaverscanttalk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋