Friday, February 18, 2005

Immutability of God

"Wherefore we must conclude that God alone is-not at all according to any measure of time, but according to an eternity immutable and immobile, not measured by time or subject to any decline; before whom there is nothing, nor will there be after, not is there anything more new or more recent; but one who really is-who by one single now fills the ; and there is nothing that really is but he alone-nor can we say 'He has been,' or 'He will be' - without beginning and without end.
Montaigne "Apology For Raymond Sebond" lines 788-799

Montaigne in this essay is talking about the mutabilty of man. Man can't understand things that change because they are changing and he is changing. He says in his essay "Of the Education of Children":
"For likewise these are my humors and opinions; I offer tham as what I believe, not what is to be believed. I aim here only revealing myself, who will perhaps be different tomorrow, if I learn something new which changes me."
We as humans are contually changing. He says, "...Everything is either coming into being and not yet fully existent, or beinning to die before it is born...And yesturday dies into today, and today will die into tomorrow; and there is nothing that abides and is always the same."

Except for God. Because man is finnite and changing, has a beginning and an end, man can't understand God. The content is somewhat in my last blog. Montaigne believes God is uncomprehendable to man.

If God had no beginning and no end it would seem that he knows and understands everything because he is outside of time.

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