Proteus wrote:
I believe it's the other way 'round:  the Creation must be part of the Creator.

The Creator is infinitely greater than the Creation.

Proteus, There are a couple logical difficulties with these two statements.  Let me start with your first line.  When a programmer creates a computer program, is the computer program part of the programmer?  When a builder builds a house, is the house part of the builder?  When a farmer plants a field of corn, is the corn part of the farmer?  Although these are not perfect analogies since they are all within our space-time, do you see the problem with your first line?

As to your second line, even if, for the sake of argument, the first line is assumed to be true, then the second line cannot be true, because the Creation is finite in space-time and God is "infinite" outside of space-time.  It is impossible to quantify this finite portion as a part of, or compare it to, the "infinite".

Yet, since the first line isn't true, that doesn't make your second line true - it is still false - because one cannot compare the finite Creation in space-time to God who is "infinite" outside of space-time.

UriYosef

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