Well this is a rare meeting of the minds here!
Since several of us here are in agreement in regards to God's existence having no beginning and no end, I wonder if I might get some or all of you to comment on the problem of infinite regression?
If God has always existed, how did He manage to arrive at the current moment since there doesn't seem to have been enough time for an eternity to have passed yet?
Asked another way, what was the first thing God did? If you say that there was no first thing, how then could there have have been a second and a third and so on? If there is no second or third or fifty thousandth, etc then does that imply a lack of sequence to God's existence?
For those of you who are familiar with Zeno's paradox, you might notice that the paradox I've just brought up is very similar to it. Zeno, in case you don't already know, said that motion was impossible because there is an infinite number of points one must traverse in a finite period of time in order get from anywhere to anywhere else.
Zeno's paradox is resolved, or so I'm told, with the use of Calculus. I'm curious to know whether the problem of infinite regress can be tackled in a similar fashion.
Resting in Him,
Clete
Since several of us here are in agreement in regards to God's existence having no beginning and no end, I wonder if I might get some or all of you to comment on the problem of infinite regression?
If God has always existed, how did He manage to arrive at the current moment since there doesn't seem to have been enough time for an eternity to have passed yet?
Asked another way, what was the first thing God did? If you say that there was no first thing, how then could there have have been a second and a third and so on? If there is no second or third or fifty thousandth, etc then does that imply a lack of sequence to God's existence?
For those of you who are familiar with Zeno's paradox, you might notice that the paradox I've just brought up is very similar to it. Zeno, in case you don't already know, said that motion was impossible because there is an infinite number of points one must traverse in a finite period of time in order get from anywhere to anywhere else.
Zeno's paradox is resolved, or so I'm told, with the use of Calculus. I'm curious to know whether the problem of infinite regress can be tackled in a similar fashion.
Resting in Him,
Clete