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I think God IS time & space & everything within it.

A map or a computer cannot contain all the information in the world. The amount of information that exists in any particular area is infinite when compared to what can be contained in a map or a model or an image. The movement of leaves & grains of sand & living things & all energy & matter simply cannot be capured or stored.

So for God to truly be ALL KNOWING & all powerful & ultimately in control of everything (without the control being arbitrary), God has to actually be the system itself. And so in order to get closer to God we need to better understand the world around us.

There are objective & discoverable laws of morality, but they are dictated by the nature of existence. Old books have very little to do with it, aside from being past efforts of people to write down & explain what they previously discovered.
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DRE 1y ago

God can’t be time and space. By definition he has to exist outside of it. Time and space had a beginning, so something outside of it had to cause it. The objective laws of morality come from God, which humans of course can come to know through reason because we are made in God’s image.

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Jeff Swann 1y ago

So then God isn't all knowing...? How does all of the information relating to all of existence exist outside of existence? If time & space has to have a beginning then why doesn't God have to have a beginning?

Everything is a result of the shape of existence & reality. Life probably exists as a result of some combo of oil & water, energy differentials, & a myriad of complex cyclical physical phenomena. Economic & moral laws emerge from the logic of life & beings with desires interacting with physical reality & each other.

I just think God is reality & we are made IN in the image of God.

'The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself, to study itself, and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities'

John C. Lilly