What Hammy is describing is a contradiction in terms. It makes no sense explaining that a rectangle can be a triangle by the terms, but it makes sense that rectangle can be a square and a square is necessarily a rectangle by terms.
Confusion is never easy to get out of.
To explain the time shift thing I explain... what would it mean to go back in time?
It would mean you are no longer in the present but back to a past, and then living in the present time but things went back to that. What is impossible is that you are in the present and you are in the past, because there is no way to keep track of who you are.
God can try to put "real you" in this moment and another "moment", but not without us being in actually two moments, that are different. We either one person or not. We either experiencing present or we not.
Like I said, it's hard to get out of confusion. I had to become a Deist to see that this was irrational to believe and let go of the daunting horrifying condemnation of saying God doesn't know the future (since from my perspective, it doesn't exist yet and is impossible to know unless he forces all actions and forbids himself from doing decisions in real time).
Confusion is never easy to get out of.
To explain the time shift thing I explain... what would it mean to go back in time?
It would mean you are no longer in the present but back to a past, and then living in the present time but things went back to that. What is impossible is that you are in the present and you are in the past, because there is no way to keep track of who you are.
God can try to put "real you" in this moment and another "moment", but not without us being in actually two moments, that are different. We either one person or not. We either experiencing present or we not.
Like I said, it's hard to get out of confusion. I had to become a Deist to see that this was irrational to believe and let go of the daunting horrifying condemnation of saying God doesn't know the future (since from my perspective, it doesn't exist yet and is impossible to know unless he forces all actions and forbids himself from doing decisions in real time).
