tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-883829097236138163.post8448296277849355013..comments2023-10-21T06:29:15.456-04:00Comments on I think, therefore I blog.: Love, creation, and the pain of separationJameson Graberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01295353443322403779noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-883829097236138163.post-67909983480710797392016-05-14T11:17:38.322-04:002016-05-14T11:17:38.322-04:00Thanks so much for your comment! Re: why is God tr...Thanks so much for your comment! Re: why is God trinitarian, that question bothers me, too. I think my next post is partially an attempt to respond. God contains within Himself the possibility of not being--that's part of what it means to be love itself. But that can't be if He is simply unitarian. Then again, why three and not two? Or why just three? In some sense, I think maybe creation partially answers this by saying that in the end, it will not be just three, but an ever growing circle of creatures enjoying fellowship with God. But this is only partial, since creatures are not identical with God.<br /><br />I wish I could respond re time and free will, but it's too complicated for a short comment! Thanks for reading.Jameson Graberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01295353443322403779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-883829097236138163.post-39424316327169440252016-05-11T09:26:53.097-04:002016-05-11T09:26:53.097-04:00I have just found your blog by tracking your profi...I have just found your blog by tracking your profile from BHL. I have not read much, but I really like the way you think and write. re: this post, I find it enlightening but not completely satisfying, since it does not address why the Father generated the Son, i.e. although you make a terrific job of intuiting why creation is an outpouring of the trinitarian nature of God, it moves the question of "why is there something istead of nothing" to "why is God trinitarian instead of une"?<br /><br />Regarding creation, I often wonder about what it means for God to stand "outside time". If God does see every instant of the history of the Universe as "present", would that not mean that creation of a specific Universe entails (from the point of view of eternal, intemporal Godhead) the creation of its own complete history? In a way, it would be like an infinitely fast, omniscient, writer, who when first setting pen to paper to write a novel does so in a single stroke (thereby instantly "deciding" which specific decision every character makes in every point of the story). If that is so, where does this leave free will? Are we still free when the whole history of the universe is created "in a flash"?<br /><br />I love your writing :-)PedroShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02404776246982814786noreply@blogger.com