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First, because the nature of God’s relation to time concerns the relationship between creator and creation, a core component of the bedrock of theology. Second, because understanding whether God is temporal or atemporal enables insight into what the mind of God might be like.
God created both physical and metaphysical time and God existed entirely without time. God, then, had to be timeless. Unless God became temporal at some point, God remains timeless.
22 mar 2018 · The idea is that God’s time is non-identical with our, “Measured Time”. “Measured Time” is “the specifically human time of our history and our universe: the time of seconds, days, and centuries; the time of our space-time” (Padgett 1992: 130). In that sense of “time”, God is timeless.
The existence of God has been a big subject in philosophy, and attempts to prove or disprove his existence have been made since time immemorial. Famous philosophers such as Rene Descartes, St. Thomas Aquinas, and William Paley have all conceived arguments to prove the existence of God.
4 cze 2024 · God stands above time as the eternal One and as its Creator, but it is also true that He interacts with us in time. He is present and involved in the world, engaging with us as time-bound creatures. More than that, in the person of His Son, He has entered into human history.
And the basic argument of this essay is integrally related: the plausibility of the notion of a time-infinite, or time-independent, wholly transcendent divine. Then, difficult questions about the origin of God, the infinite universe, what is over the fence at its edge, all take on a different feel.
Augustine, Confessions, 258–60. Wilcoxen’s “Augustine’s Theology of Time” is an invaluable resource for thinking through Augustine’s distinction between fallen and redeemed time. Jordan Baker suggests that Augustine’s philosophy of time can teach Christians how to engage science.
