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1 sty 2011 · The God of Western religion is said to be eternal. But what does that mean? Is God somehow beyond time, living a life that does not involve one thing after another?
Obviously the genre of the book is not affected by the positive or negative answer to the central question: "Does God exist?" Contemplating the two-three thousand years of history of philosophy from the ancient Greeks up to now, one observes a continuous interest in this central question.
The Existence of God: Key Arguments Essay. Exclusively available on IvyPanda®. 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.
Our time is constituted by physical time (the kind of time measured in physics). God's time (metaphysical time) has no intrinsic metric and is constituted purely by the sequence of God's mental states.
Platonist, and subsequently Christian, claims that the world had a beginning in time rely on a particular metaphysical view, concerning the structure of the divine mind (and its relationship to forms), and its role as a cause. See Full PDF. Download PDF.
One argument to prove God’s existence is known as the ‘ontological argument’ — an argument which, by reason alone – proves that, the very idea of God as a perfect being means that God must exist, that his non-existence would be contradictory. These kinds of a priori arguments rely on logical deduction, rather than something
Introduction God and Time: Four Views, edited by Gregory E. Ganssle, introduces the philosophical perspectives of four contributors on God’s relationship to time. The book’s contributors are highly distinguished theologians on the subject.
