Tuesday 28 February 2012

on youtube I replied to someones question: 

"It does strike me that even the tiniest amount of 'something' will inevitably make 'nothing' impossible so I agree with 'no borders'!

wimsweden then asked: "Wouldn't that mean that the classical Abrahamic view of "Creatio ex nihilo" is self-contradictory because it posits a "something", i.e. God, that creates something (else) from nothing, which never was because something, i.e. God, always existed?

This was my reply: (its so hard to fit a decent answer into youtube's word limit.)

when people say that God does not exist they are absolutely right. If he is outside time he is also outside 'existence' (but 'non-existence' also): these are concepts for a finite being. The word 'nothing' is central here. If the word 'Nothing' derives from the two words 'no thing', this is perhaps the ONLY thing we can say about God: that he is No Thing. I dont like to speak of God in the third person though: it only takes us further into crisis.

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