Today in class I could not handle the amount of thinking going on in the room. I also could not handle the amount of accidental blasphemy coming out of my own mouth. It was awesome. It was the result of a presentation of my final paper in that class where I spoke on my thesis and supporting argument. Then we had a discussion about implications of my thesis in general and possibilities for expansion of the paper before it is due next week. I will try to briefly explain my paper and the resulting conversation.
My paper argues that people only understand being through relation to the temporal world. Things only matter to us because they exist in the world and we understand them in time. If God exists as an eternal being outside of time then it seems to be the case that there is a problem in figuring out how we interact with Him since we are confined to time and things in this world. It also is odd to suggest that there is some gap between God and His creation. Given the limited nature of our existence there had to be a movement by God in which He took on human characteristics so that we might understand Him. solution: Christ's Incarnation.
these are the questions that came up from discussion of this thesis:
Is God a being or perhaps Being itself?
Saying He is Being or that time exists inside Him is atheism in disguise is it not?
If things matter to us precisely because of our place in time how could things matter to God in the same way since He is outside of time and therefore the things that matter to us?
What are the implications of the incarnation for God?
Could it be the case that he gained knowledge of human experience through the incarnation?
As in could He have come into an understanding of what it meant to be human previously not held?
Is the answer to the previous question be indicated by or connected to how God went around smiting people in the OT then stopped in the NT?
Is God's most characteristic activity unification of temporal and divine, finite and infinite?
Is any of this really important, practically speaking?
If it is important then what does it mean about prayer? Or God's command to Abraham?
These are a few of the things that came up. Typing them makes my brain explode again.
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