Hello pat,
I think I said external in the sense that god is not without us god is within us. And eternal can also be interpreted as infinite from what knowledge we have of god now. God would not be external according to me because there is god in everything we do because we believe so, may be there is god for everything a person does if a believer is seeing the person. But a person himself may have no knowledge of the concept of god.
p.s: Please make it Mohan. A space and a C make my name look longer.
