>From: Woodward Norm Civ WRALC/TIEDM <Norm.Woodward@robins.af.mil>
> ---And, so, from this POV, the creator did not exist before his creation?
Correct.
Thomas Aquinas, many centuries ago, offered a similar (but not identical)
possibility. The world (as a creation) need not have a beginning in time. As
Aquinas saw it, the essence of the Creator/creation relationship is not that
one preceded the other in time, but that one (the creation) is at all times
dependent on the other (the Creator) for its being.
> Or is it, a being can exist without "an essential part of (its) nature"?
No, that entails a contradiction.
Howard Van Till
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