Can God uncreate?

[Sacred_Heart_1]

I wonder if we could think of redemption (i.e. the return to unity with God) as a kind of ‘uncreation’. In the ‘creation’ of this world (i.e. the Fall), being became separated from God. As we return to unity with God through the redemptive mystery of suffering and death, exemplified through Christ, the Fall is ‘uncreated’. So, eventually, when the whole Cosmos is redeemed into God- there will be a great, infinitely simple unity- ‘Creation’ (the Fall- the work of sin and self-will) will be undone.

Redemption would more closely relate to renewal, uncreation relates to destruction and loss; but I see your point.

 

[Sacred_Heart_1]

Fakename:

Read Article # 4 immediately following your #3 link. You will see that while God can annihilate finite things, He doesn’t.

God bless,
jd

God cannot annihilate. God is held by the Law of Truth which is His Holy Spirit. It is against the Truth to annihilate the existence of life and what life is dependent on (the world); therefore in no way can God annihilate. He has no will to say that he can annihilate because he is the very Spirit of Truth that he is bound to uphold.

 

[SonCatcher]

God cannot destroy the existence of life, say a human soul. Once a human soul is created it can never be uncreated. In other words you can never terminate a soul into non-existance. The reason for this is because the extinguishing of existence (a soul) is a blasphemy against the Holy Ghost; and since God cannot blasphemy the Holy Ghost he just sends a bad soul into hell; rather than extinguishing its existence. There is Law that God must obey and this is called the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Truth.

Since in humans God creates immortal, spiritual souls, it certainly does seem contradictory to think He could annihilate those souls (i.e. take what is immortal and make it mortal).

I wonder if we could think of redemption (i.e. the return to unity with God) as a kind of ‘uncreation’. In the ‘creation’ of this world (i.e. the Fall), being became separated from God. As we return to unity with God through the redemptive mystery of suffering and death, exemplified through Christ, the Fall is ‘uncreated’. So, eventually, when the whole Cosmos is redeemed into God- there will be a great, infinitely simple unity- ‘Creation’ (the Fall- the work of sin and self-will) will be undone.

The Fall, however, is a creation of Man. More properly, I think Redemption is Re-Creation of what Man destroyed.

 

[PeterGStanley]

Your forgetting God is just and right and perfect in all that he does which is a truth we all believe so everything he created is just as he wanted it to be with no question of uncreating his great works. .
When trying to understand God it should be remembered as it is found in Isaiah 55:8-9

My thoughts are not your thoughts,
my ways not your ways – it is the Lord who speaks.
Yes, the heavens are as high above earth
as my ways are above your ways,
my thoughts above your thoughts.

 

[Alberti_Devoveo]

This depends on what you mean by ‘uncreate’. If you simply mean annhialate, bring back into nothingness, then of course, God can uncreate.But if you mean by uncreate “going back” and undoing what God already did, then it is not possible, not because God isn’t omnipotent, but because that would be contradictory, It is impossible for something to both be and not be at the same time in the same respect. It’s not a question of God’s omnipotence, but rather of something incomprehensible that in and of itself does not make sense and cannot exist, just like its impossible for a shape to exist with all the attributes of both a square and a circle. God cannot create such a thing because it is self-contradictory.

Okay, this I can live with. I was thinking in the former sense, which, as you point out, is certainly plausible.

 

[JimmytheButcher]

I believe that once God creates something he can not uncreate it.

God does not uncreate. To do so would be contrary to Him.

In fact, nothing can uncreate. Consider the physical laws. Conservation of Matter, is a hint into this.

(I reached junior year in physics at a university, before things got too hard for my pea-sized brain, and constant frustration at the persistent atheism, so I could list several other conservancy laws, but the one pertaining to material covers them all by relation… I mean how do you go to class when a tenured professor says something like, “Imagine the Pope throwing a baby up in the air and he catches it. Now, imagine the Pope throwing the baby and he doesn’t catch it.”… and I quote.)