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The garden, after all, is a public space, teeming with people from the outside (God forbid, maybe even a nonbeliever or two).
"In the New Testament, the gentiles were seen as those who were outside God's promise," he said.
Since there is nothing outside God, 'creation from nothing' cannot mean creation from some principle outside God, rather it means: creation out of God's superabundant nothingness.
This is clearly an extrinsic change, since its occurring in God implies the existence of someone "outside" God, namely Quine.
To pretend to show that there is something that can be predicated of things outside God that cannot be predicated of the divine thoughts of those things is to deny divine omniscience.
"Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence" (Morning Hours, p. 85 (translation slightly altered)/Gesammelte Schriften, 3/2, p. 118).
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Because there is no "outside" of God due to God's infinity, God must withdraw in order for creation to exist.
The reason, Cusanus writes, is that there is no exactness outside of God, and only "God, who is everywhere and nowhere, is its [the universe's] circumference and center" (II.12, Hopkins translation).
For nothing outside of God, not even the eternal truths or immutable essences, necessitate that God act in one way or another, but rather, they are themselves eternal and immutable in virtue of the fact that God, whose existence is necessary and immutable, willed them in their essence and existence.
But the thing that I wish more people understood is that the experience of conversion came from outside in: God gets ahold of me and changes me.
The first is that of classical theism in which there is the admission of plurality, potentiality, becoming, as a secondary form of existence outside of God.
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