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Time Travel Prayer? (Praying Across Time)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Key Mistakes People Make When It Comes to Prayer

The christian faith teaches that god is outside of time, so he exists in an eternal now where there is no past, present and future. From his perspective, the entire history of the world, our past, our present and our future are all equally present him. But there is a debate about whether the past,present and future are all real from an objective perspective, which would be god's perspective. Many people think that if god is affecting the past based on my prayers, that it would mean he’s changing the past. It's commonly held among theologians that changing the past is one of the few things god cannot do once a series of events has unfolded in time.

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