-----Original Message-----
From: Howard J. Van Till [mailto:hvantill@novagate.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:04 PM
To: Woodward Norm Civ WRALC/TIEDM; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Staged developmental creation.
>From: Woodward Norm Civ WRALC/TIEDM <Norm.Woodward@robins.af.mil>
> --If the conventional theistic view is correct, that God pre-existed
before
> the Cosmos, and will probably exist beyond, then "...to be intimately
> related to a World..." can not logically be an essential part of His
nature.
It seems you may have missed the point: process theology (or naturalistic
theism) offers a view of God and the God/world relationship that is
substantially different from the "conventional theistic view" inherited
from the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman cultures.
---And, so, from this POV, the creator did not exist before his creation?
Or is it, a being can exist without "an essential part of (its) nature"?
You are right, I am missing the point...
Norm
Howard Van Till
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