(May 14, 2016 at 2:45 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote:(May 14, 2016 at 11:13 am)Huggy74 Wrote: God is eternal, which is the very definition of timeless (no beginning and no end) since it cant be measured.
(May 14, 2016 at 1:57 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: The essence of God has nothing to do with that point
How do you know what God's essence has to do or does not have to do with-without knowing anything about it? I'm really confused here...
So, eternal and timelessness are not part of God's essence, or are you just saying that you don't know anymore?
If you Go back and look at my original post, you'd see that I was responding to this quote.
(May 13, 2016 at 3:57 pm)Time Traveler Wrote: You are correct, there is nothing incoherent about a "timeline," UNLESS you are idiotic enough to insist that one of those states on the timeline is... timeless!
EDIT: And it is equally ridiculous to assert that one of those elements on the timeline is actually prior to the beginning of the timeline itself.
Do you see God mentioned anywhere? So God's essence isn't in question, the issue is whether or not "time" and "timelessness" can both exist, which they can seeing how time is relative.