(May 3, 2016 at 5:07 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:(May 3, 2016 at 5:03 pm)SteveII Wrote: God existed timelessly and changeless causally prior to the universe. Atemporal. There was no stream of consciousness or successive chains of thoughts. He knew all truths intrinsically.
Depending on your preference between A and B theories of time, you can view God's temporality and the creation of the universe in one of two ways:
On the A theory, once God created space-time, God underwent an extrinsic change with the new relationship to his creation and in doing so became temporal. On the B theory, you could conclude that God did not undergo any temporal change (neither intrinsic nor extrinsic) and exists outside the block of time.
And how do you know all that?
inductive reasoning
