In Reply to: Eternity = everything all at once posted by Lyle on May 01, 2003 at 06:46:28:
Thanks for the comments Lyle. I guess we will never really get it all until all. I also find the point of perspective in relativity theory to be quite interesting.
Maybe God's place of residence is in a relative perspective with an omnipotence that binds or unites all individual perspectives in an instantanious Now that is so spectrally dense that it causes all physical events, past, present and future to merge into, what may seem to us to be, the living paradox of an "eternal moment"
Perhaps this density is the point and the means that allows past, present and future to meet all at once as the physical is assimilated into the spiritual. Meanwhile, reality, (the past present and future occuring), is experienced by each living individual during their physical lifespan in a linear progression with a relevancy of occurance specific to their perspective point in space and time.
I think that there is a growing realization by the scientific field that there was a designed and premeditated start to the physical time/ space sequence from "start" to the "present" plane of existence,( a living physical perspective specific to each of us).
Although many scientists may not be free or bold enough to identify this force as God I think they know there is no other logical explanation for it all. In the back of their minds I think the concept of creation occuring as a premeditated act is a place/position many scientists are gradually coming to. Recent discussions regarding chaos theory presents a concept that chaos itself as an agent in the universe is bound by an order whose cyclic loop is so large that we do not have the ability technologically to understand, measure or predict the nature of its operation.
I hope I do not come across as trying to instruct you or anyone. I think about these things frequently and often discuss them with others. Like the Physical reality that no object subject to gravity gets out of a black hole those who go to the big now are generally not going to pop in for dinner after the fact to tell us about it.
Happy trails!
Rocky of the windy bag.