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Yes, thanks, and this brings up an interesting distinction. Yet, my thinking is that if "God is not necessary" for creation....then doesn't that take God out of the equation by undermining omnipotence? Or does it mean that God, too, came out of nothing? What, then, was the force that created God? Is God capable of nothingness? Is God a being that was once a nonbeing? Is God self-creating?
Some interesting comments so far. I hope to revisit some of them when I have more time.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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