(November 10, 2016 at 3:18 am)Irrational Wrote:(November 10, 2016 at 3:07 am)theologian Wrote: I think it is not absurd. For, it is just seemingly absurd to us, for we haven't experienced eternity, which is the state outside of time, of change, succession of moments. However, there will be absurdity if we will relate time with God, Whom is beyond time and space, as He is Being Himself. An analogy which is far from being specific can be used: An author who plans to write a story exist in his mind all the successive events in the story. If we are in the story, then the time runs in a regular manner. But in the mind of the author, it can be all at once. If that is possible with man, the more it is possible with God.
It's logically absurd. The only way you can get out of this is by saying God defies logic anyway. But then that would mean God could also create a square-triangle and also create an object he is unable to lift or destroy or other such absurd things.
The analogy doesn't address how time came to be because for the author to write the story (or even plan to write it) in the first place, time must have already occurred. And this is because, once again, time is automatically a correlate of act, whether it's divine or not.
God doesn't defy logic, for the basis of logic is reality, and God is Being Himself.
We may not know how He created, but we are sure that God is always in present, for time will limit God and in Him there must be no limitation.
I think the key here is to know that time doesn't exist apart from changeable substance. But, God is already perfect and unable to undergo change. Therefore, in God, there's no time.
