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Debate: Is it possible for God to be timeless? (view source)
Revision as of 19:04, October 27, 2008
, 19:04, October 27, 2008Yes
:::I disagree that omnipresence makes God a physical part of the universe. If He was both omnipresent and physically present, there wouldn't be any room for anything else, would there?.--[[User:CPalmer|CPalmer]] 12:56, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
:::I disagree that omnipresence makes God a physical part of the universe. If He was both omnipresent and physically present, there wouldn't be any room for anything else, would there?.--[[User:CPalmer|CPalmer]] 12:56, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
::::It is quite possible for God to be timeless. To try and explain, humans always feel the need to quantify everything, even things which cannot be quantified. Thus you end up with thought experiments such as "If God is forever, where did He come from?" (How many people here have asked themselves ''that'' question? I bet all atheists have at some point and used their lack of an answer as a basis for their non-belief) and "If I fly forever, will I run out of universe?". The concept of eternity (running forwards and backwards) is simply a condition that we cannot (yet) wrap our minds around. Even if the Big Bang theory is true and one proton became "everything" and time started from that point, where did that one proton come from? It's when we try and picture and already infinitely old God standing in an infinite nothingness, holding a metaphorical match under this lonely proton that the thought experiment starts to become mind-bending. (Another t.e. we did a while ago was "if God is eternal and the Earth is 6,000 years old, what was He doing for eternity-6000?")
::::That could be why many people reject the notion of God, "I cannot conceive the concept of God being forever, because I do not understand 'forever', thus God cannot exist." God's existence cannot be quantified, which is where "belief" and "faith" come it, as unsatisfactory as some people find those answers. --[[User:JessicaT|KotomiT]]<sup>[[User talk:JessicaT|''Konnichiha!'']]</sup> 15:04, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
== I don't know, and nor do you ==
== I don't know, and nor do you ==