(July 17, 2019 at 3:16 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Ah, yes. All those experts on who and what God is have told us (or their holy books have told us) that God cannot possibly be a temporal thing. He is above and beyond temporality, they say, in much the same way that he is above and beyond physicality. No self-respecting God would dirty himself by association with material objects. No self-respecting God would associate himself with any given moment of time, such as the present... or a specific movement of the past or future.
The Hindus have a concept of Brahman who is not only entwined with, but characterized by the events of the present moment. As disagreeable as the concept of Brahman may be to many here, there is no contradiction with Brahman like the one you have described with "other" god-concepts. As I see it, Brahman, is far more realistic than those other "timeless" god concepts.
This wouldn't apply to every concept of course, only a particular one.
