(November 8, 2016 at 7:59 am)theologian Wrote:(November 6, 2016 at 11:11 am)Mudhammam Wrote: If God is Pure Act of Being then it would seem, by your claim that God creates in time, that He is only sometimes Pure Act, but that his Being and his Act are separable from each other -- which is a contradiction of the notion that by necessity God is Pure Actuality, and that his Actuality is Being, i.e. Pure Act of Being.
I didn't claim here that God creates in time, did I? Time is created, for it is the rate of change, and change exist in creation only. So, if God created, then He created not in time, but to be precise, creates time.
I'd like to dwell on this bit here, if you don't mind.
How did God create time outside of time? Shouldn't time always be a correlate of any act, including the act of creation?
The only thing that makes sense is that time has always been, whether physical or metaphysical or whatever you want to call it. You can never make sense by saying that an entity can timelessly create. It's just absurd.
