"'God will always be the supreme artist...'"
-CHAPTER FIVE, p. 255.
"'What an artist the Creator is.'"
-CHAPTER TEN, p. 298.
Any conscious designer surely needs an environment to draw inspiration from and to act upon and therefore cannot have preexisted all environments? At some stage, I would have to raise this discussion if I were around Axor as he periodically praised the Creator's artistry. Self, surely, is recognized as such only by contrast with other. It would follow from this that self-consciousness cannot have preceded otherness.
"'"And now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity,"' he quoted." (p. 299)
And there is another Andersonian Biblical quotation. See here.
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Kaor, Paul!
But I don't believe God needs anyone or anything else to know He exists and to be eternally and infinitely happy and self sufficient. To say that He does logically seems to be saying He is not perfectly God. I have also argued, quoting Dante, that God created others from caritas, because He would rejoice in the existence of other beings.
And thanks for linking to my note on Anderson's use of the Bible. I can think of very few science fiction writers who used the Scriptures as Anderson had done.
Ad astra! Sean
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