RE: Timelessness
April 26, 2016 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2016 at 11:39 am by Ignorant.)
(April 26, 2016 at 9:41 am)Time Traveler Wrote: If I understand your question correctly, it has to do with the semantic difficulty of trying to describe events happening in a timeless manner without using words like "prior" or "before". But I think the difficulty is more fundamental than that, because absent time, by what possible mechanism does something ever change? It is up to the theists who believe God existed timelessly before the creation of our universe to explain and defend these apparent paradoxes.
Well, sure there is a semantic difficulty, but my question deals with the conceptual difficulty which makes your questions lack meaning. In other words, "timeless" existence "prior" to time is empty of any meaning. A thing can't be temporally prior to time itself, but can it be "prior" in a different sense? I don't know. If it can, then maybe that is in play here. If it can't, then both the claim about God's "prior" existence and the objections to that claim are meaningless. At least it seems that way to me.
