RE: The absolute absurdity of God
August 13, 2018 at 6:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2018 at 6:51 pm by Angrboda.)
Well, I had planned to wait until you had completed responding, but seeing as others are already responding, I'll make a quick point.
Things in a timeless state do not have beginnings, nor do they lack beginnings, as a beginning is a transition in state and that only occurs in time. So it's incoherent or, at the least, not particularly meaningful to say that a necessary being that exists in a timeless state is beginningless. It simply doesn't apply. I see this as a part of the larger problem of coherently conceiving of a necessary being as well as the problems with timelessness. It's an attempt to address that problem and as such it doesn't succeed in doing so.
Things in a timeless state do not have beginnings, nor do they lack beginnings, as a beginning is a transition in state and that only occurs in time. So it's incoherent or, at the least, not particularly meaningful to say that a necessary being that exists in a timeless state is beginningless. It simply doesn't apply. I see this as a part of the larger problem of coherently conceiving of a necessary being as well as the problems with timelessness. It's an attempt to address that problem and as such it doesn't succeed in doing so.