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Originally Posted by awareness
God the creator is separate from His creation. .
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There is an assumption there that is not warranted, by scriptures. Think of my oft-repeated example, of the angel and Hagar, talking there in the desert. She tells the angel, "You are the God who sees me". The angel is "separate from" the creator God, because she is talking to a messenger, a sent one. But through the medium of this messenger she is connected to God. She is not as separated as we may think.
In another example the angel who spoke to Mary said, "I am Gabriel; I stand before God." If the angel stands before God, how can Gabriel also stand before Mary? I think our notions of "time" and "space", of "togetherness" and "separateness" may be skewed by our being stuck in physical bodies in space and time, and our conceptual arrangements resulting from that experience. So we may not understand God, nor His creation, as well as we suppose.
When John the apostle fell at the angel's feet he was told, "Do not do that. I am your fellow creature. I am not the Creator. Worship God." Yet the difference between John and the angel was so great that John was overwhelmed with awe and reverence. And John had seen Jesus transfigured! Surely he wasn't so easily impressed. But when he saw this angel he was overwhelmed, and began to worship.
Perhaps the distance between those in temporal space-time, and the realm of perfection and immutable spiritual reality is rather vast. So making conjectures about the immutable nature of reality itself, merely because they seem reasonable to our semi-rational minds, may not be warranted.
Put another way; I am not so easily impressed with Lee's "this equals that" or "this means that" logic today as I was several decades ago. And that extends to you and me, as well -- the gap between us and the divine reality is just too great. We shouldn't trust our thoughts too much.