![]() Only within time can God judge, decide, punish, create, have emotions, take pleasure in things, and so on. How can you create anything if you’re outside of time? In particular, how did timeless God create time (or turn it on or however you’re inventing God’s relationship with time)? Isn’t timelessness permanent, since causes require time? How do you go from being timeless to within time?Īnd do you really want to imagine God outside of time? Such a god would be inert. Iron Age thinking isn’t helpful when dealing with 21st-century physics.Īnd be careful what you wish for, since God as a Time Lord calls down a rain of new questions. ![]() The Bible makes vague hints at God’s timelessness, but the Bible is no authority. You must first show that this God exists. My response: Make up whatever properties you want for God, but that won’t magic away the problem. ![]() How could God cause the Big Bang without time to do it in?Ītheist argument: “There was no time before the Big Bang, so that means that there was no time for a God to exist in or create things in.”Ĭhristian response: “Christians have traditionally held that God is a timeless being, outside of time, prior to creation.” Wow-the atheist argument is in tatters before we even begin! Let’s poke through the rubble and see if anything is still standing after Barnett’s savage analysis.įor the first two arguments, go to part 1.
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