Mr. Deity and the Really Hard Time

Even though some of their episodes are not so good, this one is a keeper.

2 comments:

Mike D said...

This is one of the best ones. It has that "who's on first" kind of timing to it.

John said...

I agree with the part about time. The scientists I've read have said causality rquires a temporal context. If there's no time there's no causality. And to place God outside time makes Him completely unchanging and therefore He doesn't act or move.
It makes no sense to say God is personal and timeless.

A movement is a change in position. For God to freely choose to do something He must move. He makes a choice to create. If He is outside time He doesn't move. He becomes completely changeless like an abstract object. If He doesn't move He doesn't freely choose to do anything. He becomes impersonal.


As The Christian Philosopher Richard Swinburne has argued:


"so many other things which the theist wishes to say about God--that he brings about this or that, forgives, punishes, or warns--are things which are true of a man at this or that time or at all times. If we say that P brings about x, we can always sensibly ask when does he bring it about. If we say that P punishes Q, we can always sensibly ask when does he punish Q? If P really does "bring about" or "forgive" in anything like the normal senses of the words, there must be answers to these questions even if nobody knows what they are. . . .So, superficially, the supposition that God could bring things about, forgive, punish, warn, etc. etc. without doing these things at times before or after other times . . .seems incoherent." (Coherence of Theism, p. 221)

The only way I see it can work is if God exists in multiple dimensions of time.