How Can God Exist Out Of Time And Be Omnipresent?

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='philothea' post='1127358' date='Nov 25 2006, 02:50 AM']


It's in the equations for relativity, and the reason why time slows down for something moving near the speed of light.



I don't know if this is or not...
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Are you sure? I've read Sagan, Hawking, and Russell on relativity and I don't recall anything about time and space actually being the same thing, but only related (but hey, it's been a few years).

[philothea]

[quote name='Raphael' post='1127835' date='Nov 25 2006, 11:47 PM']
Are you sure? I've read Sagan, Hawking, and Russell on relativity and I don't recall anything about time and space actually being the same thing, but only related (but hey, it's been a few years).
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When you make c=1 (which is the easiest and, thus, the most common way to calculate anything in relativity) length and time are the same.

It's more a math trick than a physical description of what anything [i]is[/i], but that's all that physics really gets you anyway.

(More accurately, both time and distance are components of a vector with magnitude c.)

[Resurrexi]

[quote]St Thomas More you've been asking a lot of questions lately. Thats good, it shows you have a passion for true wisdom. Have you considered buying some introductory theological texts?[/quote]

Any reccomendations?

[Myles Domini]

[quote name='StThomasMore' post='1128162' date='Nov 26 2006, 10:29 PM']
Any reccomendations?
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[url="http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Catholic-Dogma-Ludwig-Ott/dp/0895550091/sr=8-1/qid=1164580723/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7375519-9349526?ie=UTF8&s=books"]Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott[/url]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Catholicism-Milestones-Catholic-Theology/dp/0824517180/sr=1-1/qid=1164580838/ref=sr_1_1/104-7375519-9349526?ie=UTF8&s=books"]The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam[/url]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Theology-Sanity-F-J-Sheed/dp/0898704707/sr=1-1/qid=1164580987/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7375519-9349526?ie=UTF8&s=books"]Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed[/url]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Theology-Beginners-Francis-Joseph-Sheed/dp/0892831243/sr=1-1/qid=1164581049/ref=sr_1_1/104-7375519-9349526?ie=UTF8&s=books"]Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed[/url]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Catholics-Really-Believe-Setting-Record-Straight/dp/0898705533/sr=1-1/qid=1164581097/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7375519-9349526?ie=UTF8&s=books"]What Catholics really believe by Karl Keating[/url]

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[url="http://www.amazon.com/Catechism-Catholic-Church-Accordance-Promulgated/dp/0879739762/sr=1-1/qid=1164581226/ref=sr_1_1/104-7375519-9349526?ie=UTF8&s=books"]Catechism of the Catholic Church: Revised in Accordance With the Official Latin Text Promulgated by Pope John Paul II [/url]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Compendium-Catechism-Catholic-Libreria-Editrice/dp/1574557203/sr=1-1/qid=1164581322/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7375519-9349526?ie=UTF8&s=books"]Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church[/url]

[url="http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Catechism-Catholic-Cardinal-Ratzinger/dp/0898704855/sr=1-1/qid=1164581463/ref=sr_1_1/104-7375519-9349526?ie=UTF8&s=books"]Introduction to the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Joseph Ratzinger and Christoph Cardinal Shonborn[/url]

[p-hawk]

All awesome recommendations. Or, at least the half of them I've read are really good, and I hear the other half are pretty good too.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='philothea' post='1127881' date='Nov 26 2006, 01:32 AM']
When you make c=1 (which is the easiest and, thus, the most common way to calculate anything in relativity) length and time are the same.

It's more a math trick than a physical description of what anything [i]is[/i], but that's all that physics really gets you anyway.

(More accurately, both time and distance are components of a vector with magnitude c.)
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Ah, well, see, I thought you were trying to make an ontological statement about space and time.

[Resurrexi]

[quote]Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwig Ott

The Spirit of Catholicism by Karl Adam

Theology and Sanity by Frank Sheed

Theology for Beginners by Frank Sheed

What Catholics really believe by Karl Keating

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Catechism of the Catholic Church: Revised in Accordance With the Official Latin Text Promulgated by Pope John Paul II

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Introduction to the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Joseph Ratzinger and Christoph Cardinal Shonborn[/quote]

I think I'll start with [i]Fundamentals[/i]

Edited November 28, 2006 by StThomasMore