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Medini:
You are still missing the point. If the act (whether eternal or temporal, whether creative or not) is completely free, then it is ex-nihilo, as I have explained, and cannot be G-d, unless your "G-d" is ex-nihilo, i.e., existentially dependent in the most fundamental way. If the act is not completely free, then it is inherent to G-d, and your "G-d" is essentially dependent, requiring that act in His very essence. In either case, you are left with either an act that is not and can not be G-d or with a "G-d" that is finite, not Infinite in the proper sense of that term.


I think I do understand; the point imv is that the realm of eternity (timelessness) does not 'know' "beginning". The breath of God in the realm of timelessness is by definition timeless and without beginning. On dependency: I think this is no problem: God's Word or Spirit 'depending' upon God, yet One in Being with God (not three gods) within the realm of eternity/timelessness.
Maybe I'm wrong: one day we will see Face to face: then we'll both know and say: there you are: I was right (or wrong).

Aad:)