Sentences with phrase «infinite eternal being»

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«The usual theory of eternal inflation predicts that globally our universe is like an infinite fractal, with a mosaic of different pocket universes, separated by an inflating ocean,» Hawking said in an interview last fall, according to the University of Cambridge.

To conceive of an infinite, eternal punishment may have been genius, but it also reveals that vindictive hubris (not to mention immoral).

God does not change as His attributes are eternal and infinite thus already complete in any conceivable way.

1) nothing in this physical universe is the reason for its own existence 2) A causal chain exists 3) no causal chain is of infinite length 4) Only the supernatural (that which exists outside of physical reality) can be the ultimate cause of all physical reality 5) That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not exist 6) This eternal, supernatural enti.ty we call, God.

4) Only the supernatural (that which exists outside of physical reality) can be the ultimate cause of all physical reality 5) That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not exist 6) This eternal, supernatural enti.ty we call, God.

Vic: «For this universe, which is physical and ever - changing, hence finite, hence can not be infinite / eternal, hence temporal, hence had a beginning, to exist, there must be a cause.»

Grierson and Bhandarkar explain that he «taught that the Supreme Being was infinite, eternal, and full of grace, and that salvation consisted in a life of perpetual bliss near him» (5:541).10

God is metaphysical, infinite and eternal in generation (Creator.)

To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night sky and see more than the infinite reach of empty space and the eternal stretch of endless time, that can «keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God» (3:1).

Over and above the «special relevance» which selected eternal objects may have in relation to particular, finite actual entities, it is necessary that there be a kind of «relevance in general,» a real togetherness of all eternal objects amongst themselves, effected by an eternal, infinite actuality: «Transcendent decision includes God's decision.

When Christian theologians realized that an infinite nature is also eternal, they concluded that God's freedom and power should not be limited.

The Oriental mystic follows a path leading to a dissolution of consciousness, an inactivity of the self, or a total transformation of a spatial and temporal existence into an infinite and eternal Being.

Our Churches, with common consent, do teach that the decree of the Council of Nicaea concerning the Unity of the Divine Essence and concerning the Three Persons, is true and to be believed without any doubting; that is to say, there is one Divine Essence which is called and which is God: eternal, without body, without parts, of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, the Maker and Preserver of all things, visible and invisible; and yet there are three Persons, of the same essence and power, who also are coeternal, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Ogden's own view is to look upon God as Process, as a social reality that interacts with human persons in a relational way, and who is temporal and historical because he grows, matures, evolves and becomes, while at the same time being God because he is likewise infinite, eternal, unchanging and immutable.

This not about denying the existence of other universes, this stating that matter can not be infinite / eternal.

I find it rather comical that one argues that there can not be an eternal being who created our universe, yet there can be an infinite amount of universes created from nothing.

The eternal universe may be in an infinite cycle of expansion outward until gravity finally overcomes it and it all compresses back together to a point where it Big Bangs again...

Avoiding infinite regress, there couldn't be an infinite series of causes for our physical universe, so whatever this cause was, it was eternal and un-caused.

For this universe, which is physical and ever - changing, hence finite, hence can not be infinite / eternal, hence temporal, hence had a beginning, to exist, there must be a cause.

There is no other world that God might have created, not because he is bound by necessity, but because he is infinitely free, and so nothing can hinder him from expressing his essential and infinite goodness perfectly, in and through the freedom of creatures created to be the fellows of his eternal Son.

Anything that changes has a «beginning,» hence could have never been out there for all eternity to be infinite, hence finite, hence not eternal.

He is: • Supernatural in nature (as He exists outside of His creation) • Incredibly powerful (to have created all that is known) • Eternal (self - existent, as He exists outside of time and space) • Omnipresent (He created space and is not limited by it) • Timeless and changeless (He created time) • Immaterial (because He transcends space) • Personal (the impersonal can't create personality) • Necessary (as everything else depends on Him) • Infinite and singular (as you can not have two infinites) • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity) • Intelligent (supremely, to create everything) • Purposeful (as He deliberately created everything) • Moral (no moral law can exist without a lawgiver) • Caring (or no moral laws would have been given)

Therefore, it is a «logical must» that there is a «First Cause» for everything, that has no «change,» hence, it is infinite — eternal, outside of the caused and its «beginning,» and therefore, «UNCAUSED.»

Now, for this universe, which is physical and ever - changing, hence finite, hence can not be infinite / eternal, hence temporal, hence had a beginning, to exist, there must be a cause.

God creates the world of Jesus, the world conformed to his infinite love for his Son in the joy and light of the Spirit; he thereby also wills his goodness in all his creatures infinitely, which is to say he wills this world for eternal union with him in love, and he wills that we should become partakers of the divine nature.

But may it not also be that God, the Infinite and the Eternal, needs our fellowship for the completion of his experience?

Though infinite and eternal, it had limited itself with finite and temporal being and it brooded on a past that pleased it not.

General potentiality comprises the infinite number of ways that the eternal objects may be related to one another without regard to any specific historical entity, while real potentiality is that portion of general potentiality which is open to a specific historical entity, given the character of the actual world defined by its specific spatiotemporal locus.

As Niebuhr put it so well, «The effort to bring Christ and culture, God's work and man's, the temporal and the eternal, law and grace, into one system of thought and practice tends, perhaps inevitably, to the absolutizing of what is relative, the reduction of the infinite to a finite form, and the materialization of the dynamic.»

And since infinite causal chains do not exist, then that first cause must itself be eternal.

God is: • Supernatural in nature (as He exists outside of His creation) • Incredibly powerful (to have created all that is known) • Eternal (self - existent, as He exists outside of time and space) • Omnipresent (He created space and is not limited by it) • Timeless and changeless (He created time) • Immaterial (because He transcends space) • Personal (the impersonal can't create personality) • Necessary (as everything else depends on Him) • Infinite and singular (as you can not have two infinites) • Diverse yet has unity (as nature exhibits diversity) • Intelligent (supremely, to create everything) • Purposeful (as He deliberately created everything) • Moral (no moral law can exist without a lawgiver) • Caring (or no moral laws would have been given)

In The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard describes the self which is coming into being as a synthesis of paradoxical elements: the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, freedom and necessity.

Each actual occasion prehends the space - time continuum in its infinite entirety; that, says Whitehead, is nothing but an example of the general principle (also illustrated by prehension of qualitative eternal objects) that «actual fact includes in its own constitution real potentiality which is referent beyond itself.»

For Whitehead, God is an «eternal object,» but an infinite one: «therefore He is not merely one lure eliciting one particular process but the infinite lure towards which all process directs itself» (IN 169; cf. SCT par 40, 41).

The message of Christianity is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

The our crimes, which are infinite because they are against the Infinte, must be eternal.

In the first place, praying for God's help reminds us that we are not in control of the world or even of our own life, while reminding us that we are living in the presence of an infinite and eternal being.

God is infinite, all knowing, almighty and eternal.

Blaise Pascal in one of the most famous of his pensées confesses to feeling «engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified... The eternal silence of those infinite spaces alarms me».

If the disciples catch one single person out of the clutches of the devil and help bring that person into the loving arms of God the Father, that catch alone is of infinite and eternal value.

As Hartshorne notes, comparable tables can be constructed for any pair of metaphysical contrasts, such as infinite / finite or eternal / temporal (Hartshorne denies that the mind / body distinction is a metaphysical contrast).

The fundamental teaching of New Thought is the infinite eternal omnipresence of God (Spirit, Divine Mind, or however It is termed) as all there is.

The primordial nature refers to the mental pole and is characterized by the fact that God is infinite, eternal, and unchanging.

What is amazing is that creation appears well designed to produce such infinite wonder which is itself the description of eternal life in Christ.

I have the feeling that this is not simply a minor point, but that a central fact of the human predicament is precisely that of being and feeling separate from the infinite and eternal God.

Freedom would only be the indifferent freedom to this or that, the infinite repetition of the same or the contrary (which is only a species of the same), a freedom of the eternal return of the same Ahasverus, if it were not of necessity the final freedom of the subject to itself that is freedom to God, though this truest «object» of freedom might not be conscious in the individual free act.

However, the very first thing for which such a need would be responsible might be a Divine Person, an Eternal and Infinite Being.

The difference, however is always great: man's existence is totally dependent on God's act of creation whereas God's existence is eternal, infinite, omnipotent and dependent onnothing else.

Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit: the Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, the Holy Spirit uncreated; the Father infinite, the Son infinite, the Holy Spirit infinite; the Father eternal, the Son eternal, the Holy Spirit eternal.

As a thinking being, it is possible for me to suppress and quell in my consciousness every movement of self - assertion, every notion and opinion that is merely mine, every desire that belongs to me as this particular Self, and to become the pure medium of a thought that is universal — in one word, to live no more my own life, but let my consciousness be possessed and suffused by the Infinite and Eternal life of spirit.