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<div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">M.M. wrote:</span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">That's why I said that He does change with respect to us.<br>Let me make a comparison to calculus: If I have y = x^2 (squared),<br>then the equation does not change. It is constantly y=x^2. BUT, at any<br>given point, the rate of change of y changes. dy = d(x^2)dx --> dy =<br>2x. The rate of change at any given point is double what x is at that<br>point.</span></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A">The above analogy does not hold. M.M. implies the rate of change is dependent on X.</font></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A">The rate of change is NOT dependent on X. How do you know that your calculus
equation shouldn't be y=2x and therefore dy/dx is equal to 2 which is a
constant?</font></span></font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A"> </font></span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A">2x is a constant change
and y=x2 does not have a constant change.</font></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Also, differential </span></font></span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus" title="Calculus" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">calculus which</span> </font></span></font></a></b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A">is the study of how </font></span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_%28mathematics%29" title="Function (mathematics)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A">functions</font></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A"> change when their inputs change, has as its primary object of study the </font></span></font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative" title="Derivative" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A">derivative</font></span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A">. From a theological analogy, one could say that God is the Primary derivative, so giving the above example stating that God does change with respect to us,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "> is meaningless and strictly subjective and doesn't prove a thing. </span></font></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Everything you're trying to attribute to God comes from the need to relate the infinite to the finite. It just won't work. It's like one tree trying to explain to another tree how other forms of life can exist without being attached to the ground.</span></font></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Kol tuv/Best regards.</span></font></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1C0F1A"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">ri </span></font></span></font></span></div>
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