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God, Time, and Relativity

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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The Doctrine of Divine Timelessness

An entity must exist one way or the other, and cannot exist both ways at once. If then god exists a temporally. He has no past present confusion at any moment in time. It would be true to assert god exists in the tensest sense of exist, as when one says the natural numbers exist, but not true toassert god exists. The defender of divine timelessness maintains that there is no acceptable answer to this question. So long as we maintain with einstein that no frame is privileged, then we cannot plausibly identify the time of any inertial frame as god's time. For this would obliterate the unity of god's consciousness.

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