RE: Supernatural isn't a useful concept
November 11, 2016 at 9:47 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2016 at 10:07 am by GrandizerII.)
(November 10, 2016 at 6:50 pm)Ignorant Wrote:(November 10, 2016 at 2:40 am)Irrational Wrote: Shouldn't time always be a correlate of any act, including the act of creation?
Not necessarily. Time is only a "correlate" of those acts which involve certain sorts of change. e.g. If something is pure act, that act is real despite the lacking of any change. Pure act, therefore, is "timeless".
If creation involves the sorts of change which demand time (and it does), then time is a "correlate" of creation.
Quote:How did God create time outside of time?
If pure act creates, then "timeless" act brings about creation and its correlating time, "timelessly" (i.e. the pure act itself remains timeless while bringing about time-dependent creation).
How? How does god do any of the things he does? No answer to that question does not = the absurdity of the concept.
Can you elaborate more on this "pure act"? What does it mean to act if it does not involve any change at all?
As for your last point, the problem goes beyond merely not knowing the answer to the question. The problem is with the logical aspect of invoking change timelessly/changelessly.
