You seem to be uncritically rehearsing and dropping illusory words you crammed during your school years in order to pass exams and qualify for a graduation certificate without education.
Admittedly, if God created space-time, then it is logical to assert that, in the beginning God WAS outside this space-time we know, since, etiologically speaking, the antecedent is always prior to the consequent.
It is here assumed that God created this space-time while located in the presumed outer space.
The latter is not empirically knowable to us since we can only empirically know what is located in space time.
However, logically, it seems that, no longer is today's God wholly located outside the four-dimensional space-time (x, y, z, t) we know.
To maintain otherwise is to carelessly confuse the past tense with the present tense, and to ignore the fact that God is immanently omnipresent, from which it follows that He is both within and beyond space-time. This position follows from the following argument:
- If God exists, then, in terms of attributes, he is transcendent (i.e., exists outside space-time) and immanently omnipresent (i.e., exists anywhere in space-time). (P1)
- A transcendent being cannot exist anywhere in space-time and an omnipresent being must immanently exist everywhere in space-time. (P2)
- Thus, it is impossible for a transcendent being to be immanently omnipresent (from 3 and 4). (P3)
- By definition, a set of propositions entails a contradiction if it simultaneously asserts and denies a given position (P4)
- Therefore, the existence of a transcendent and immanent God is a contradiction (from P1, 2, and P4). (P5)
This contradiction is undeniable. And to deny this contradiction is to concede cognitive incompetence on the part of the denier!
If so, how can we still make sense of God as a being that is outside of space-time, and yet has created it, interacts with his creations that are confined to space-time, and at one specific point in history entered into space-time in the person of Jesus?
We can circumvent this contradiction by adjusting P2 so that, a transcendent being can exist anywhere in space-time and beyond.
So, if God is everywhere in space-time and is unchanging, then, he would be expected to be at such points as (P1,T1); (P2,T2); ...., (Pi,Ti), ......, (Pn,Tn); where the locus running from (P1,T1) to (Pn,Tn) is occupied by the same God.
Thus, it is OK to describe such God's Identity in terms of spatial and temporal variables, as I did. That is, to describe God's Identity in terms of
time-indexed variables and
space-indexed variables. Our philosophical theology allows it.
Thus, concerning space-indexed properties, we can say that
God-at-Dar is the same as
God-at-Dodoma or vice versa; or that,
God-in-the-Mosque is the same as
God-in-the-synagogue or vice versa.
Similarly, concerning time-indexed properties, we can say that, G
od-of-1514 is the same as
God-of-2021 or vice versa; or that, G
od-of-the-Old-Testament is the same as
God-of-the-New-Testament or vice versa.
The key assumption here is that, one of the key attributes of spiritual substances is
penetrability, as opposed to the attribute of
impenetrability. The latter is usually possessed by material substances.
As a rule, every material body must have weight, volume, occupy a particular location in space, and it is impossible for two bodies to be at the same location at the same time. The latter property is called
impenetrability.
Just as one body can not be simultaneously occupy more than one locations, so too, two bodies cannot occupy the same location simultaneously.
It follows that each body must occupy a particular location, inaccessible to any other body, as long as the former is not ejected from it.
Generally, if at times it appears that a body completely enters another body, there is even then no penetration; instead the pores in one body accept particles of the other, after the ejection of any matter that might previously have occupied the pores.
Whatever is impenetrable belongs to the category of bodies, and therefore the essence of bodies is their
impenetrability, on which therefore all their other properties must be founded.
Since bodies through their essence are impenetrable, no force, however large, is able to compress two bodies such that, even in their smallest parts, a real interpenetration can occur.
By
definition, then, impenetrability is the name given to that quality of matter whereby two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
For example, you cannot sit on the chair which is already occupied by another person.
The opposite of impenetrability is penetrability, hereby defined as, the ability of two types of substances to occupy the same space at the same time.
Examples of penetrability are common in the physical world. It is by reason of the attribute of
penetrability, as their intrinsic property, sound energy and magnetic energy can cross walls from one room to the next without any hindrance.
By the same logic, given the divine attribute of
penetrability, God can be inside the wall and outside the wall, below the ground and above the ground, inside our bodies and outside our bodies, and so on.
This way, we are capable of describing God in terms of
world-indexed properties, and time-indexed properties, without any hesitation.
Professor Alvin Plantinga has been very useful in elucidating this concept of world-indexed properties.
He is the inventor of the concept of world-indexed properties. These are properties such as
being speculative in possible world W.
What these properties are to possible worlds is what
time-indexed properties such as
being careless at time T are to instants of time.
