Why does this contradict what I said? The world is a reflection of the mind of God, created freely by him. Thus he stands in relation to it. Creator to created. Things in the world corresponding to things in God's "mind."
I'm ommitting here that many varieties of Christianity are explictly modelled on Platonic and neo-Platonic ideas, and that God became FLESH and thus part of the world, which is a big notion in Orthodox Christianity.
--- On Sat, 2/14/09, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I don't know where you got this from Chris but it's
> a direct
> contradiction of just about everything I was taught growing
> up in a
> Christian environment (home, school and of course, church).
>
> As John Thornton mentioned, practicing Christians describe
> God as
> omniscient and omnipotent, as the 'author and
> finisher'. Paradoxically
> woven into the structure of 'nature' (in the
> creator role, speaking
> existence into existence -- "And God said, "Let
> there be light"; and
> there was light..." Gen 1) and yet, able to observe it
> from the
> outside as a created thing.
>
>
> The ultimate expression of the word,
> 'SUPERnatural'.
>
> I'm sure this is an old idea but it's very useful
> for modern
> Christians who reconcile a universe of discoverable,
> 'natural laws'
> with belief in a god who can dismiss those laws at will
> (Red Sea
> partings, manna dispensing clouds hovering over wandering
> Israelites,
> immaculate conceptions, etc).
>
> Who or what told you that god was "not conceived as
> external to nature"?
>
>
>
>
>
> .d.
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