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Intro
1: God exists without beggining and end.
2: God’s eternity consrasts with the transitoriness of man.
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3: Scripture teaches that God existed before time itself began:
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A Systematic reflection on the Bibliucal Data.
The bible makes it clear that God is eternal.
However, it does not make it clear as to how God is eternal.
There are 2 ways in which something can exist withou a begining and without an end:
1: Omnitemporal - It can exist throughout infinate time
2: Atemporal - It can exist outside of time altogether.
He will be beginingless and endless simeple because the concepts themselves would not exist outside of time.
Core: To exist eternally means to exist without begining or end.
God’s Relationship to Time
Temporal existance is incomplete.
We do not have the future - it exists only in potential.
We do not have the past - it is over and cannot be changed.
All we have is the present.
This incomplete existance is incompatible when dealing with a suprime, perfect, maximally great being like God.
A Omnipotent being knows the future as well as He knows the past and present.
He knows the past in perfect detail.
Arguments for God being Eternal in time:
1: God changing relations within the world.
Intrinsic change: Intrinsic change is when something changes in its non relationl properties.
Ex: An apple changes from green to brown.
Extrinsic change: A relational change.
Ex: My dad was taller than me but is now shorter than me - He diddnt change, I did, so he changed in relation to me.
In creating a temporal universe God now changes extrisically in relation to his creation.
Illastration:
A rock frozen in space at absolute zero.
A meteor goes past and then another meteor.
The rock has not changed in itself, but it has changed in relation to the meteors, thus be changless but also in time.
The incarnation is another example.
2: God’s knowledge of Tensed facts.
Tenste facts are facts related to past, present and future.
As an omniscint being od must know tensted facts.
Does God know what time it is now?
Yes, that would mean that he knows tensed facts.
Outside of time would mean that “now” is unknowible.
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