I see God and creation an interdependent (inasmuch as God is dependent on anything). I don't believe that God is restricted in any way when involved in the material universe (yes, I do subscribe to "miracles", that is, things that seemingly break the laws of logic); but I do believe that in essence God "waits" until we've made a choice. Think of a blinking cursor.
Yet, I also believe that one cannot deviate from the Tao. In a roughly deist sense, I could consider the concept of God's will as equivalent with the Tao. (Of course, what I'm saying doesn't reflect upon the true Tao.)
But if God has a will, why is it immutable even to God? That I don't understand.
I'd say that "God's will" and "God" are so intermeshed that the two things are really indistinguishable. In other words, "God" and "Tao" are largely two terms that are applied to pretty much the same thing; of course both descriptions are incomplete, because you really can't describe a system from inside a system, and when the system is All There Is, one realy can't get outside of it (Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, which I consider to be holy scripture). None of our models will ever be particularly complete, which is one reason why we have so many of them, I think. (Heck, this is why it's "we" instead of "I".)
We really must get coffee sometime one of these years. :)
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Date: 2004-03-16 11:02 pm (UTC)I see God and creation an interdependent (inasmuch as God is dependent on anything). I don't believe that God is restricted in any way when involved in the material universe (yes, I do subscribe to "miracles", that is, things that seemingly break the laws of logic); but I do believe that in essence God "waits" until we've made a choice. Think of a blinking cursor.
Yet, I also believe that one cannot deviate from the Tao. In a roughly deist sense, I could consider the concept of God's will as equivalent with the Tao. (Of course, what I'm saying doesn't reflect upon the true Tao.)
But if God has a will, why is it immutable even to God? That I don't understand.
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Date: 2004-03-16 11:11 pm (UTC)We really must get coffee sometime one of these years. :)
I like coffee.
Date: 2004-03-16 11:22 pm (UTC)