Is God Beyond Time and Space?

In this study, we talk about the idea of God's transcendence and immanence; that is, the idea that God is above and beyond all creation and yet in our world at the same time. Theologians also explain it as God existing outside of space and time while also existing in every point of space and every moment of time.

Of course, to say that God is outside of space and time is to say that God is immaterial (or, bodiless). Every bodily entity has location and a time and thus can't be in two places at once, let alone everywhere at once - unless it were to be so large as to occupy the whole universe to the exclusion of everything else. But this isn't what most people believe. Most believe God exists everywhere *and* other things exist besides God. But how could this be? Well, the thing that supposedly makes this work is that God is thought to be everywhere *not* as a body; but as something non-bodily - something non-material. 

But could something non-material exist? The SDA pioneers didn't think so. Join us as we read from some of the pioneers writings, including both James and Ellen White, to see what they taught on this all important subject – and one of the pillars of our faith.

 

For further study, please see our video series: 

"The Personality of God: An SDA Pillar Doctrine."

https://youtu.be/CJSYUSfohsQ

Sabbath School Q2 2023: Three Cosmic Messages - Week 7, "Worshiping the Creator" 

A Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist perspective on the Sabbath School lesson.

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