Tuesday, May 8, 2012

First, One, God

The following numerical sequence plainly appears in Genesis 1--"One day . . . second day . . . third day . . .", etc.  Likewise, God is unarguably the first entity of the account, but there is no evidence that he pre-exists it.  Furthermore, the 'first' does not entail the 'one' in the Platonic sense, i. e. that an entity is immanent and dynamic, even if privileged, does not entail that it is transcendent and static.  So, the theological tradition that models the God of Genesis 1 on Platonist structures falsifies, rather than systematizes, it.

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