Saturday, January 10, 2009

God's Eternity and Omnipresence

God’s Eternity and Omnipresence.
God’s eternity and omnipresence are concepts that at first sight seem irrational and unscientific, therefore hard to comprehend and even accept unless we see faith as a leap into unknown. After all, everything and everybody has a beginning and an end and also are located in only one point in space at a given time. And that’s true! It is true for everything and everybody. However, it is rational and scientific to expect that God is different.
The idea of beginning and end are time concepts. It means that in the flow of time everything and everybody has a point of coming into existence and a point of leaving the existence. But what is time? Time is a unit of measure for matter. In fact we can define time as an interval in which the matter makes a certain number of movements: The earth makes a rotation around its own axis (day), around the sun (year), or the moon makes a rotation around the earth (month), etc, Time is therefore a unit of measure for matter, whether it is “thing” or “body.”
A very important requirement in science is that we use the right unit of measure for the right dimension. Everybody realizes how ridiculous is to ask, “ How many cups are between Seattle to LA?” That’s because we measure distance in inches, feet, and miles and use the cup for measuring volume. So, even when we deal with matter we have to use the right unit of measure for the right dimension. Yet, God is not matter, He is spirit and when was God’s beginning or when will be His end are irrelevant questions, because we are asking time questions to measure movements of a spirit.
In the same way, a position in space is a measurement used to define where matter is in space at a given time. So, a thing and a body can be in only one point at a time. Yet, when we talk about God who is spirit it is not possible to pinpoint a singular position in which and only in which He must be at a given moment in time. He is omnipresent.
For the Son of God to be in our midst and to submit himself at the requirement of time and space, he had to become man, to have a true body, and that is what happened when He was born to live among us and die at a certain time for us, so that our souls (spirits) after separation from the material bodies share eternity with Him and His Heavenly Father.

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