(August 19, 2023 at 9:27 am)Barry Wrote:(August 19, 2023 at 9:18 am)LinuxGal Wrote: If God "always existed" then so did time, because "always" is a word that is effective only within the domain of time. So why not worship time? Time doesn't send me to hell for eating hot dogs on Lenten Fridays.
Hi LG, God exists outside of time. St Augustine said if we think we understand God, we don’t.
That's okay, because we understand time. Space-time has a light-cone structure, and causes of events must lie on or within the past light-cone of that event. If God lies outside of time, then he cannot be the cause of any event within time. And that pretty much wraps things up for God. But thanks for playing Stump the Atheist.